Summer’s End

September 13, 2017 —— Moira Yip

Follow the author’s personal photographic blog of her global travels and her life in Maine here:  “Eyes on the Wild”

I leave this evening, so a last few photos to help me remember through the winter.

The natural world is preparing in different ways, getting ready for a time when food will be scarcer. The animals seem to emerge from the woods a bit more, like this pair of ruffed grouse crossing the road by my house:

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My red squirrels are collecting, eating, and storing the nuts from the hickory tree inside its hollow tree trunk...

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The paper wasps are frantically building their nests, laying a single egg in each cell, then sealing it up.

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A late dragonfly, a Shadow Darner, was hunting through my flowerbeds.

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A late dragonfly, a Shadow Darner, was hunting through my flowerbeds.

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And the lake is serene.