Posted on FaceBook October 22, 2020
Here, we’re on Flye Point yesterday in a soft rain. We’re looking across a wild (“low-bush”) blueberry field; and, in the distance, we see cloudy Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park across Blue Hill Bay.
Below, we see one of our country lanes soaking up yesterday’s rain.
The yellows and reds of autumn bush and tree leaves seem subtler in the rain, as if they were new brush strokes that need working. The yellows in fall leaves come when their dominant green chlorophyll pigments are lost due to seasonal weather, allowing their yellow carotenoid pigments to be seen. The reds in leaves come from a pigment called anthocyanin, which some plants produce in the cool autumn temperatures. (Brooklin, Maine)