Look carefully. It’s happening now.

What’s happening? In our part of the North Country the color change is. This seems to be a particularly good year for goldenrod. Many roadsides and some fields are bright yellow. That’s an attractive contrast or complement to what’s shown in these pictures I took this morning along one of my favorite country roads.

leaves turned purple

Photo by J. Harrington

Joe Pye weed(?) in bloom

Photo by J. Harrington

maple leaves(?) showing color

Photo by J. Harrington

maple leaves showing color

Photo by J. Harrington

These colors weren’t evident a week ago when I drove the same route I took this morning. Often, nature’s changes are subtle and incremental and we miss them if we aren’t paying attention. Especially if we’re looking out a vehicle window at 60 mph. Sometimes nature surprises us with flash floods, volcanos or lightning strikes. Those are hard to miss, especially if we’re nearby when they happen. Change is inevitable, if disconcerting. Attend, adapt, adjust. It’s near impossible to avoid.

Change

By Wendy Videlock

Change is the new, 

improved 

word for god, 

lovely enough 

to raise a song 

or implicate 

a sea of wrongs, 

mighty enough, 

like other gods, 

to shelter, 

bring together, 

and estrange us. 

Please, god, 

we seem to say, 

change us.

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