October in Maine this year seems to have been a month of climactic contrasts.
During one 72 hour period,it seems to go from sub freezing nights to sometimes rather hot and humid days. This has even fooled normally summer oriented flowers into having a second life of sorts-even as the traditional growing season is coming to an end. So truth be known: the more seasonally appropriate foliage and other harvest related subject matter will be on the way to this blog soon. But simply couldn't resist the mind oddity of these late in the season dwarf roses. Enjoy!
Several days ago,I was at one of my favorite local nature spot Fields Pond on an unusually warm and sunny early October day. While staring at an oak tree down by the pond of the shore,one that I've looked at many times,I noticed how much nature had patterned the bark of this tree much in the manner of a mosaic. Sometimes it's all too easily to take for granted the artfulness of nature as we tend to pass through it with a specific destination in our minds. On this day? I decided to give this fairly common but nonetheless fascinating natural phenomenon a second look.
This second installment of my field pictorial jumps around a bit in terms of timing than my first. Some of these were taken last month,in August. But didn't have a chance to complete the project that month so am including them here with several recent ones that I took just two days ago. Please enjoy these images!
Fields Pond: August 10th,2014
Fowler & Johnson Hill Road: August 10th,2014
Pierce Road & Eastern Avenue: September 28th,2014
