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spinach
So I completely blew it this year with my Spring garden – I didn’t sow my seeds early enough and the weeds really just took over.  So about the time that it started to cool down this year, I thought maybe I’d have a second chance with a cool season crop.

About the beginning of September I went out to see if I could find some seeds – everyone was pretty much out except one local garden store in Madison (CT).  They were actually giving their overstock away so I plowed through a large pile looking for varieties of spinach, lettuce and radishes that had short germination and growing times.  I did pretty well, and even despite our early cold, and torrents of rain, the little veggies did pretty well as you can see.  I love these little macro shots – they’re colorful and also give great inspiration for color themes for other creative projects.  Above is spinach, below is winter lettuce, cilantro, winter kale, radish, another winter lettuce.  Below that is a Japanese Maple that looks like lava to me, white oak, and sarsaparilla against a white oak trunk.

lettuce cilantro
Kale

radish

mixed lettuce
rows

These aren’t veggies, but I love the colors:

Japanese Maple

trunk and leaves

autumn leaves

leaves and sky

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essex house

I went out yesterday intent on photographing some Fall color here in New England – as well as some Halloween decorations.  Unfortunately the weather wasn’t cooperating as well as it could have – it was very stormy but I made it to Essex (on the Connecticut River) and got some shots of some of their doorways and houses.

The cottage above is one of my favorite homes in the area – an antique probably built in the 1800’s it really looks like a mini English estate to me.  Yet it’s located right towards the foot of Main Street in Essex.  Love the hedges and the large elaborate bird house.

white house

The house below demonstrates how you can indeed decorate for Fall all in white!  Love the white pumpkins flanked by white chrysanthemums.

white pumpkins

leaves with white house
witch

black door

weekend kitchen

doorway

fall color

My camera isn’t the best for taking scenery unfortunately, but I thought this shot (above) came out pretty well. It’s the tracks for the Essex Steam Train.

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