September 25, 2013

It was 65°F and clear and calm at 2:30 PM on September 25, 2013.
Warm sun and cool, dry air again. A nice stretch of this weather we've been having.
Fall colors were beginning to show.
Mosquitoes... two?
Katydids and peepers were still calling, but there were very few butterflies.

Sugar maples at the Carriage House were beginning to turn, but more brown than the bright yellow we look forward to.
At the beginning of the Scotch Pine Alleé, optimistic cabbage whites were planning a family so late in the season.
Towards the end, poison ivy and Virginia creeper were turning red.
At the back door of the Fern Glen, moody ferns were lurking in the deep shade.
Tucked behind the pond, staghorn sumac was flaming red.
Leatherwood was getting yellow in brighter locations, but I liked better the mottled look of those in the shade.
One doesn't think of ferns when it comes to autumn color, but cinnamon fern in the fen was making a noteable effort.
Our one basswood had apparently been host to some leafrollers, but at this point the rolled leaves were untennanted.
All around the pond, spicebush was turning gold. A nice small tree throughout the year.
On the Cary Pines trail, coral fungus was coming up. With all the rain this year I would have expected more mushrooms.
In the Sedge Meadow, asters were abundant.
At the opening to the back Old Hayfield, several hickory tussock moth caterpillars were out in the open.
The burning bush along the edge of that field was beginning to turn.
On my way out through the front Old Hayfield, I had to snap the common, but striking wasp mimic, the locust borer beetle on goldenrod.

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