Halloween passes, and the call for pumpkins takes a nosedive. Those that didn’t sell here are headed back from whence they came, LongShot Farms in Old Lyme, where they will be smashed open and fed to the cattle.
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I have a kayak and had a canoe, but beyond that the allure of the boating life is pretty much lost on me. On this night though, with low humidity, a low dew point and a full moon rising, a bit of the magic came through.
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The remarkable colors of this sunset (photo not retouched in any way) are probably a result of the wildfires burning out in the Pacific Northwest and western Canada this summer, and the east-west flow of particulate matter. I first noticed this effect in 1991, weeks after Mt. Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines, when the sunset sky here in the Northeast turned a soft, otherworldly purple for some time.
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Went up to northeast CT for some barnboard – turned out to be too far gone for the cabinet in my mind’s eye – but had a nice visit with the farmer. His barn blew down a few years ago when Hurricane Sandy came through (thus the barnboard), with winds apparently coming in from the north. I wouldn’t have expected that as from our own location – 35 miles to the south – it clearly came in from the southeast. “I’ve been here 62 years and I’ve never seen anything like that wind…” adding parenthetically as he gestured to an empty space, “nor did the barn..” He raises goats now and talked about the coyote and bobcat presence in the area, which “culls the herd”.
Remnants of days gone by can occasionally be spotted in the region, though most have disappeared or otherwise receded into the landscape, obscured by the swell of homes built in the last few decades -split levels, ranches, colonials – too much of a mishmash of styles for my taste. I did see a couple of old cemeteries though – this one was located on an east facing hill.
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This is where the CT River (flowing from the left) dumps into the sea. The southern edge of Old Lyme, including Great Island, is the land mass.
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