23 degrees and sunny at the start
Bird Highlight: Herring Gull
Herring Gull
Botany Highlight; Pale-leaved Sunflower
Pale-leaved Sunflower (Helianthus strumosus)
Heart-leaved Aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium)
Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis)
Norway Spruce cone (Picea abies)
Water Horehound (Lycopus americanus)
Cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium)
New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
Spotted Knapweed (Centaurea stoebe)
Purple-stemmed Aster (Symphyotrichum puniceum)
Chicory (Cichorium intybus)
Highbush Cranberry (Viburnum trilobum)
Fringed Gentian (Gentianopsis crinita)
Nodding Ladies’-tresses (Spiranthes cernua)
Salmon
Gray Goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis)
False Solomon-seal (Maianthemum racemosum)
Doll’s-eyes (Actaea pachypoda)
Large-leaved Aster (Euthamia
macrophylla)
Phragmites (Phragmites australis)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
The mellow moon, the changing leaves,
The earlier setting sun,
Proclaim at last, my merry boys,
The harvest-time begun.
– Charles G. Eastman (1816–60)