October 2022
October 1 Fall colors starting to happen around Boston. I liked this red flare of ivy on a wall in Susan's neighborhood. And the next day, this single tree turning color across the street from my house. The next few days were blustery and cold, some hard rain, feeling like fall is really happening. October 5 Sparrow at the Chestnut Hill mall, right by Bloomingdales. October 7 Bicycling out to Race Point on the Cape this morning, passing Herring Cove beach, flocks of blue jays, dozens and dozens of them, flew from the woods across the road. I wondered if they were migrating as it's unusual to see so many together. Even though we see blue jays year round in Massachusetts, it's possible that our summer birds go south and more northern ones come here for the winter. Susan's friend Christie came over this morning, all excited, having found chicken of the woods mushrooms, great sheets of them, all orange and yellow, growing on a tree right near her house. Said ...