We moved from northeastern MA (Ipswich area) to southern ME back in June. We are staying along the water and summer was terrific. Fall has been similar and spectacular. Those are gorgeous photos and scenes. I love this time of year here in New England.
Beautiful photos. Years ago I used to travel to New England from Michigan every fall to just take in the countryside from Western Mass to Rhode Island, on up to Maine, through New Hampshire and Vermont and back through upstate New York. It was always soul refreshing.
I live in Florida now. Love it, but come autumn my eyes and soul still lean toward the northeast. One of these years I’ll need to plan my autumn again.
Lovely photos.
Very peaceful photos, in a non-peaceful time. Thanks for sharing. I enjoy the reflected images, giving the impression of being taken with the camera upside down.
Yeah! Way nice, you have an eye for the light Neo! 🙂
Newmanian says “ I live in Florida now. Love it, but come autumn my eyes and soul still lean toward the northeast. One of these years I’ll need to plan my autumn again.”
I recall making friends with Floridians new to Colorado saying much the same things, “looking forward…..” Only very rare reds in the brief autumn than in New England, but amazing yellows and oranges amongst the Aspens, in the Rockies.
The beauty of New England–especially in autumn–breaks my heart.
FYI The Boston historian Samuel Eliot Morison had this anecdote about Mathew Arnold when he was being given a tour by his transcendentalist friends in the fall. :
“I say, is there something wrong with your trees; are they diseased?”
Gosh, Neo, those mums look great, even upside down. Thanks for these. It tells me you share the pull of that delicious musky melancholy of autumn. As I look at your photos I think of Housman’s poem that begins..
“Tell me not here, it is past saying,
What tune the enchantress plays
In aftermaths of soft September
Or under blanching mays,
For she and I were long acquainted
And I knew all her ways.”
I like the yellow flowers
Thanks for the upside-down mum comment! I couldn’t determine what that was! But it’s all beautiful. Some peace and tranquility are desperately needed this week.
Lovely.
TJ- I agree with you. Colorado is another one of those places. Yes, the aspens are beautiful. So much of the northern US is amazing in the fall. Where I grew up- Michigan- it is splendid with Maples, Birch, Poplars interspersed with various evergreens. Wisconsin, Minnesota all along the north to the Northwest is all amazing. Still, for me there’s something about New England in the fall. Not any single state, but the entire region.
The mums look upside down, but they’re not. I stood over them to take the photo, and that’s what they looked like.
Yes, multi-colored October in New England is a delight, but the fogs and browns of November also have their beauty. Robert Frost informs us.
MY NOVEMBER GUEST
My Sorrow, when she’s here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.
Her pleasure will not let me stay.
She talks and I am fain to list:
She’s glad the birds are gone away,
She’s glad her simple worsted grey
Is silver now with clinging mist.
The desolate, deserted trees,
The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so truly sees,
She thinks I have no eye for these,
And vexes me for reason why.
Not yesterday I learned to know
The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow,
But it were vain to tell her so,
And they are better for her praise.
Maybe there is, maybe there isn’t, more behind Robert Frost’s vivid landscapes. But for beauty they suffice, and reconnect me to the countryside of my childhood.
Awesome images. Thanks for sharing this
You are like a little teacup of tranquility in an ocean of raging storm. So nice.
Beautiful! Lovely!
Even better than most of Slovakia, tho we love Fall here, too. (Not really optimal reds, tho great yellows with the evergreens)
Many Slovaks who start to live in Florida or CA, for the sun, then miss the seasons and move North, or back.
neo: As a bit of a shutterbug — I’m currently shooting with a wonderful Fuji X100T — I wonder what you’re using. I’m guessing a cellphone and there is no shame in that. I’m shocked at the quality people can get with a phone.
Once upon a time I learned all the ASA, F-stop, shutter speed, depth of field stuff and how to focus and put a shot together on the fly. But now, what you can get with point-and-shoot!
Anyway. Lovely shots.
you always take such great photos – thank you for sharing!
Made my day!
Gorgeous!
You are very talented, Neo!
I particularly like water-reflection pictures.
Tugging at my heartstrings! I love living in Texas but wow do I miss New England.
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We moved from northeastern MA (Ipswich area) to southern ME back in June. We are staying along the water and summer was terrific. Fall has been similar and spectacular. Those are gorgeous photos and scenes. I love this time of year here in New England.
Beautiful photos. Years ago I used to travel to New England from Michigan every fall to just take in the countryside from Western Mass to Rhode Island, on up to Maine, through New Hampshire and Vermont and back through upstate New York. It was always soul refreshing.
I live in Florida now. Love it, but come autumn my eyes and soul still lean toward the northeast. One of these years I’ll need to plan my autumn again.
Lovely photos.
Very peaceful photos, in a non-peaceful time. Thanks for sharing. I enjoy the reflected images, giving the impression of being taken with the camera upside down.
Yeah! Way nice, you have an eye for the light Neo! 🙂
Newmanian says “ I live in Florida now. Love it, but come autumn my eyes and soul still lean toward the northeast. One of these years I’ll need to plan my autumn again.”
I recall making friends with Floridians new to Colorado saying much the same things, “looking forward…..” Only very rare reds in the brief autumn than in New England, but amazing yellows and oranges amongst the Aspens, in the Rockies.
The beauty of New England–especially in autumn–breaks my heart.
FYI The Boston historian Samuel Eliot Morison had this anecdote about Mathew Arnold when he was being given a tour by his transcendentalist friends in the fall. :
“I say, is there something wrong with your trees; are they diseased?”
Gosh, Neo, those mums look great, even upside down. Thanks for these. It tells me you share the pull of that delicious musky melancholy of autumn. As I look at your photos I think of Housman’s poem that begins..
“Tell me not here, it is past saying,
What tune the enchantress plays
In aftermaths of soft September
Or under blanching mays,
For she and I were long acquainted
And I knew all her ways.”
I like the yellow flowers
Thanks for the upside-down mum comment! I couldn’t determine what that was! But it’s all beautiful. Some peace and tranquility are desperately needed this week.
Lovely.
TJ- I agree with you. Colorado is another one of those places. Yes, the aspens are beautiful. So much of the northern US is amazing in the fall. Where I grew up- Michigan- it is splendid with Maples, Birch, Poplars interspersed with various evergreens. Wisconsin, Minnesota all along the north to the Northwest is all amazing. Still, for me there’s something about New England in the fall. Not any single state, but the entire region.
The mums look upside down, but they’re not. I stood over them to take the photo, and that’s what they looked like.
Yes, multi-colored October in New England is a delight, but the fogs and browns of November also have their beauty. Robert Frost informs us.
Maybe there is, maybe there isn’t, more behind Robert Frost’s vivid landscapes. But for beauty they suffice, and reconnect me to the countryside of my childhood.
Awesome images. Thanks for sharing this
You are like a little teacup of tranquility in an ocean of raging storm. So nice.
Beautiful! Lovely!
Even better than most of Slovakia, tho we love Fall here, too. (Not really optimal reds, tho great yellows with the evergreens)
Many Slovaks who start to live in Florida or CA, for the sun, then miss the seasons and move North, or back.
neo: As a bit of a shutterbug — I’m currently shooting with a wonderful Fuji X100T — I wonder what you’re using. I’m guessing a cellphone and there is no shame in that. I’m shocked at the quality people can get with a phone.
Once upon a time I learned all the ASA, F-stop, shutter speed, depth of field stuff and how to focus and put a shot together on the fly. But now, what you can get with point-and-shoot!
Anyway. Lovely shots.
you always take such great photos – thank you for sharing!
Made my day!
Gorgeous!
You are very talented, Neo!
I particularly like water-reflection pictures.
Tugging at my heartstrings! I love living in Texas but wow do I miss New England.