‘Fuddled age’
Photo taken from the French King Bridge, which connects Erving and Gill, Mass., over the Connecticut River, on the Mohawk Trail.
— Photo by -jkb-
“Time slips indenture, backing age
on fuddled age, confusing fall
with summer-snow with hawthorn flurries,
apple flakes along black boughs.
North of Boston, fire falls
from tree to tree, and leaf by leaf
perverse New England springs to bloom.’’
— From “The Fall,’’ by Joseph Bottum
Asters are associated with early September.