The anticipated arboreal color show has mostly passed. Reds that prevailed in much of September were the first to wane. Bright-red maples (orange for sugar maples), dogwoods, cherries, sumac, red oaks ...

Last week as I walked the woods of early June, I was struck by the abundance of green on the forest floor. Here the blue-bead lilies (Clintonia) were tightly packed with the wild lilies of the valleys ...