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We had a really warm week in Maine with temps hitting the lower 80’s. Not my idea of fall, but lots of people were thrilled summer is still hanging on.
With cool nights and warm days comes fog.
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So much fog the deer who usually only show up at dusk are here at dawn.
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This next picture is of a poor starling who smashed into our living room picture window.
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He was okay and eventually flew away after recovering from the shock. But he sure drove our cat crazy.
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Yes, people here still believe caterpillars can predict the weather.
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Looks like a mild winter to me.
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River's world..... 
Never fear — the burst (of cold weather) is yet to come.
“The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February,” –the late Joseph Wood Krutch, author and naturalist
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Normally I’d say that’s true, but the past few winters have been alarmingly mild.
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If there was anything I miss about California was the heavy pea-soup fogs that enveloped you. As long as you didn’t need to drive somewhere.
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There’s something very soothing about it…
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Glad the bird was okay.
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We have a lot of bird strikes on our large picture window and miraculously they all fly away…
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i will try to find a caterpillar around here so we can do a comparison. 🙂
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Let me know.
😉
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will do!
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Looks like a toilet brush to me…
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A very small one…
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The one I saw indicates somewhere between a mild and moderate winter. Mildly moderate, I guess? Or…moderately mild?
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