Heart-leaved Aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium)

Species list: hairy woodpecker, blue jay, American crow, black-capped chickadee, red-breasted nuthatch,  American robin, northern cardinal, song sparrow. (8 species)

Red-cedar (Juniperus virginiana)

Song Sparrow

Dog-strangling Vine (Vincetoxicum rossicum)

Rayless Aster (Symphyotrichum ciliatum)

White Pine (Pinus strobus)

Amethyst Aster (hybrid of New England Aster and Heath Aster)

Norway Spruce cone (Picea abies)

Miles Hearn

NATURE POETRY

The red light from the harvest Moon
Illumes the stilly places;
The fleecy islands cast their shapes
Above the forest spaces.

– Stephen Henry Thayer (1839–1919)