New England was so pretty – there were trees (some already with leaves changing into their autumn clothes), wild ferns (here in my part of Texas, ferns are a houseplant) growing happily in the woods, and colorful flowers (whose names I had to look up when I got home*).

So all in all, I was glad that my flight home arrived after dark so I was not immediately confronted with a view that included none of what I’d seen in New England.

Newburyport, Massachusetts
photographed 9.18.2025

*I feel like the only person in the world that didn’t know that was a dahlia.