Autumn like a spy

Coming, in The Berkshires

— Photo by Andy Anderson

“This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.’’

— Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), Maine-and-Boston-based novelist and short-story writer.