Hundreds of thousands of ferns, especially the large Cinnamon Ferns, are now putting on a woodlands imitation of a fireworks display, shooting copper, bronze and gold fronds into the air before they burn out into char.
Some of the fronds are creating colors that we’ll see nowhere else, perhaps never again:
We hope that this is a good omen for the main act, our fall foliage.
(Brooklin, Maine)