I took the photo accompanying this post three years
ago, at Skylands Manor/New Jersey Botanical Gardens. The weather was especially beautiful that Sunday
afternoon, and I imagine this landscape is every bit as beautiful these days.
It’s only been three months since the Sunday
afternoon that I visited the New Jersey Botanical Garden in Ringwood, NJ. But in terms of the weather—and the
resulting emotional atmosphere on the site—it feels far more distant in time. I’m
glad I was able to record the scene here before the leaves had
fallen for good.
No, the weather is not flashing that far back, despite the frequent jumps up in temperature so far
this winter. Instead, the “flashback” is to when I took this picture—early November,
at the New Jersey Botanical Garden in Ringwood, in northern New Jersey. While
many of the leaves had already begun to fall, there were still enough left to
make for a glorious vista everywhere I turned that afternoon.
I took this photo at the end of last month (it
sounds so long ago!), at the New Jersey Botanical Garden in Ringwood, N.J.
On the same Sunday afternoon in late October when I
snapped this prior picture, I took
this shot up at Ringwood Manor in
northern New Jersey.
