Below Freezing: A short note

Patient impatiens

This is a first. My two containers of impatiens went ballistic this year, and they just keep blooming. I don't think I've ever had them during peak leaf fall. The hares have moved to the porch for the winter, and we are almost battened down.

However. Temperatures dipped well below freezing last night, and the leaves are suddenly almost all on the ground. Jasper and I had a wonderful walk along Flowalonski, which winds along the Messalonskee Stream. 

Jasper in Fall

It is so much easier to enjoy weather that is a bit too cold than it is when it's a bit too hot. Some of it may be psychological; knowing that the planet, and Maine, is warming in a threatening way. But the other part is that you can always put on another layer. Wind and ice complicate that, but we had neither today. Lucky us.

And Jasper, freshly bathed yesterday. Handsome boy with those now strictly cosmetic ears.