October on Cape Cod

 

Yes, I know it's November, but we've been kind of busy here at the home office. Them thar pictures were taken in October... I just didn't get around to fiddling with them until November.

Deal(v).

I suppose we all have our favorite colors, and living near a forest and a cranberry bog is a fortunate ending for someone who loves various shades of red.

"There's a red house over yonder.... that's where my baby stays."

I love red. This blog is blue... but I have this whole Smurf thing to live up to, you see.

 

We favor no shades on the page, though. Cape Cod is sort of pine-dominated (coniferous?), so we never get that full calendar treescape thing. Green is solidly represented in pretty much every shot, even in the winter.

This one sort of dominates the yard, and puts off fat color at a time when everything is pretty much fading out. Props to the landscaper.

 

Ol' Yeller.

Some of these pictures are from Cape Cod, while some are in the generalarea of Stark... which is way the uck fup in New Hampshire. New Hamster was past peak foliage when I was up there, but you can get some fat shots if you Smurf around a little bit.

 

Only the fact that it would dry out by Thanksgiving (and then go up like napalm the first time someone lit a Newport near it) kept me from having this sucker chopped down and hauled home for the Monponsett family Christmas tree.

That fact, and the fact that my living room ceiling isn't 28 feet high.

We visited last year, and explained the process better here... The Million Cran March  and here... Mann To The Fiz-Arm

October on Cape Cod ... foliage

 

Bournedale... ruff-ly the same area

 

Dog Meets Bog.... yet more cranberries..

 

 

Enough Beta Carotene To Turn A Baby Orange.... Pumpkins of all sorts

 

A Grassy Noel.....berries

 

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Tags: Cape Cod, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts