Finding beauty on a gloomy day
Last week, two major weather systems sat over the Northeast, bringing rains and high winds. Many coastal areas were flooded and my heart goes out to the families of those who perished and to those with property damage. Away from the coast, the days were long and dreary and I decided to wander around the farm and capture some images of this rather bleak time. As my eyes began to wander, I was amazed at how much beauty there was just waiting to be seen, even on a gloomy day. Enjoy, and this week promises to be sunny!
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- Leaves still dropping
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- So much work went into building this nest. I wonder where the little birds flew off to?
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- These dried stalks were the flower stems of leafy hosta plants.
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- The crab apple is now without leaves.
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- A close up of the fruit
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- A row of bald cypress nearly bare of foliage
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- These wisteria standards are late to drop.
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- How funny and strange – an oriental poppy is wanting to bloom in November!
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- My giant Kenneth Lynch urns have been covered over with protective burlap.
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- The cole crops – kale and collards look good in the vegetable garden.
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- The asparagus bed has gone to seed and needs to be trimmed back. I cannot wait to eat more in the spring.
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- The sun is trying to be seen through the heavy cloud cover.
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- How did we miss those raspberries?
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- I hope the berry patch is as prolific next season.
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- Entrance reducers have been installed in the bee hives to help keep the hives warm during frigid weather.
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- This is what’s growing inside the cold frame – leafy lettuces and herbs.
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- This is my cold frame.
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- My little Japanese garden
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- The climbing hydrangea – clinging vines
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- Remember the jewel-like currants?
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- The woody stems of the blueberry bushes have a red tinge.
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- Into the woods
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- The Pomeranian geese are happy in their penned yard.
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- A grove of metasequoia – a coniferous tree with deciduous needles, thought to be extinct until it was discovered growing in China in the 1940s.
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- Needles and cones dropping from white pines
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- The dried flowers of a peegee hydrangea
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- Again – the sun
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- The tennis court with net down and lines lifted
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- The newly planted Japanese maple grove now void of color
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- No leaves left here
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- Ramon sporting his winter coat
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- This tarp is beneath the giant ginko tree collecting the falling, smelly fruit. When dried, the nuts are edible.
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- The tree peony bed all trimmed and cleaned
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- The herbaceous peonies cut back and resting for the winter
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- Another renegade flower – this time a clemetis
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- Sans blooming clematis, the pergola looks so bare.
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- Not much foliage left on this landscape.
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- Leaves still clinging to pin oaks
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