Walks & Sights … in New Hampshire
Thirteen walks this month on trails, plus more in town, imprinting the scents, sights, sounds, and sensibility of each place before snow cover, leaflessness, torpor, and dormancy set in.
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park (Cornish NH)
Standing Lincoln sculpture 
atrium 
waterlily 
green frog (Lithobates clamitans melanota) 
Farragut Monument 
red-spotted newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) 
birch allée 
Adams Memorial 
Blow-Me-Down Trail 
dahlia 
clouded sulphur butterfly 
dahlia 
‘Aspet’ with Pan statue in foreground 
Mt Ascutney
KEZAR LAKE (SUTTON NH) – on the 11th and 23rd
maple tree 
toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) 
European euonymus (Euonymus europaeus) 
American Lady butterfy (Vanessa virginiensis) 
white baneberry (Actaea pachypoda) 
chippy 
lake shoreline 
shaggy mane mushroom (Coprinus comatus) 
witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) 
hobblebush et al. 
yellow palm warbler 
gentian seedhead 
PHILBRICK-CRICENTI BOG (NEW LONDON NH) – on the 8th and 13th
partridge berry (Mitchella repens) 
sphagnum moss and boardwalk 
bog cotton 
bunchberry (Cornus canadensis) 
pine-tree spur-throat grasshopper (Melanoplus punctulatus) 
winterberry shrubs (Ilex verticillata) 
woolly bear (Pyrrharctia isabella) 
bog cotton 
aster 
larches
Other nh trails
turkey tail fungus 
coral fungi 
destroying angel mushrooms 
leaves in brook 
sulphur tuft fungus (Hypholoma fasciculare) 
leopard slug (Limax maximus) 
hobblebush foliage, berries 
Russula mushroom 
cinquefoil (Potentilla recta) 
stinkhorn fungus 
toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) 
pine-tree spur-throat grasshopper (Melanoplus punctulatus) 
Indian cucumber root (Medeola virginiana) 
Indian pipe (Monotropa uniflora) 
Lake Sunapee 
bumblebee on aster 
red clover 
Eastern / Red-spotted Newt
(Notophthalmus viridescens)
some kind of weasel – mink? 
leaves of red oak 
hermit thrush 
hydrangea and beech tree 
chipmunk 
garter snake (7 Oct)
OTHER TOWN WALKS
Love-in-a-Mist (Nigella damascena) 
geranium of some kind 
library garden 
purple hydrangea 
maple leaf 
pink geranium 
spotted salamander ((Abystoma maculatum) 
monkshood (Aconitum) 
female monarch butterfly (7 Oct)
Walks & Sights … in Vermont
We walked the Path of Life in Windsor, Vermont, on 14 October.
birth 
adventure 
hope 
creativity 
Connecticut River 
union 
community 
sumac 
sumac and solar panels 
soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) 
wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum) 
Food
shepherd’s pie and Fiddlehead IPA on patio of local restaurant 
buttermilk Southern fried chicken sandwich, Harpoon Brewery patio 
crusted Iceland cod with anchovy tapenade and fregola sarda (on patio of local restaurant) 
weekly order from BrookFord Farm 
fish & chips, Harpoon Brewery patio 
beer flight, Harpoon Brewery patio 
veggies at Spring Ledge Farm 
reuben on patio of local restaurant 
beers and pizza, Polyculture Brewing 
eating outside as long as possible! at Blue Loon Bakery on 28 October 
crowd at Polyculture Brewing
Socialising/Zoom
NH Audubon – State of NH Birds 
Washington Post – Chasing Cancer, precision medicine 
permaculture group 
college friends 
fire and cat at friend’s house (Salon) 
NH Audubon – Bird migration 
Boston.com Cocktail Club – bartenders shaking drinks with Gentleman Jack whiskey
House & Garden
CAT
HOUSE
favourite things 
decorated for Halloween 
cacti starting bloom 
many green tomatoes from volunteer plant 
geranium 
meditation area
GARDEN
‘Hot Lips’ Chelone (turtlehead) 
cosmos 
bees on ‘Bluebird’ asters 
peegee hydrangea 
asters 
Autographa californica (looper moth) on buddleia 
zinnia 
front yard 
northern red-backed salamander 
perennial mums 
sneezeweed 
cardinal in crabapple 
backyard 
‘Rozanne’ geranium 
Cuphea ‘Vermillionaire’ (large firecracker plant) 
lavender 
dwarf ‘River King’ birch 
maybe coyote 
mossy backyard 
bear cub 
borage 
yellow foliage 
seasonal decor
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