Some of September’s dramatic light and color effects can be seen by comparing this sunny vista showing the meadow atop Amen Ridge tinged in yellow goldenrod with the somber foggy view and the graying of the goldenrod two weeks later:
Those are Blue Hill and Jericho Bays in the foreground; and, in the distance, the mountains are on Mount Desert Island, Maine’s largest Island that includes most of Acadia National Park. (Images taken from Brooklin, Maine, on September 3 and 18, 2025.)