Colorfully

Appleton Farms, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Sunlight passes through

 to reveal how it is meant to be

  when the leaves release all the warmth

  

   into the skies...

Glowing

Cambridge, Massachusetts

The smallest Sugar-Maples in our streets make a great show

 as early as the fifth of October, 

     more than any other trees there.

 As I look up the Main Street, 

 they appear like painted screens standing before the houses...

   

 But now, or generally by the seventeenth of October,

 when almost all Red Maples and some White Maples, are bare,

 the large Sugar-Maples are in their glory, 

 

 glowing...

  

 All the sunny warmth of the season,

 the Indian summer,

 seems to be absorbed in their leaves... 

 

 HENRY D. THOREAU, Autumnal Tints

What a Surprise !!!

Great Brook Farm State Park, Carlisle, Massachusetts

Sitting on the branch with the pine cone,

she does not seem worried by our presence.

  

They usually dash around, 

almost invisibly.

So, this in itself is a very special moment.

 

I have often asked myself: 

why so many pine cones in these woods and so few pine squirrels ?

 

Plenty of food, yet... something is amiss... 

Living With Waves

Halibut Point, Cape Ann, Massachusetts

Eiders are flying above the crashing Ocean.

 Facing these waves

  without concern of rising and falling splashes.

   

   Nothing major.

  Just rushing to meet the shore...

Back to Me

Nashoba Pond, Westford, Massachusetts

The reflection brings me back.

 

 Who am I ???... 

Just a Pond

Nashoba Pond, Westford, Massachusetts

This pond began as a hole for excavating sand and gravel.

 Later on, 

   it became a part of protected land 

    which allowed nature to do its own work in making it alive.

 

 Absorbing spoils,

  bringing motions, resting islands, and reflections.

 And this island.  

  How did it come about ?

    Does it matter ? Not really. 

        As long as we are all here...