Blueberry barrens (2025 edition)

Fading leaves in fading daylight

Different days at Roque Bluffs

three days later

Seen in New Zealand

Islands seen from another island:

Plants and animals seen in city parks:

Views seen from boats, train, and helicopter:

Native birds (and kererū feather) seen:

Things seen from shore:

Teaching geology sketching in NZ

Photo By Sarah Titus

Blueberry barrens

The blueberry barrens of downeast Maine: never barren, rarely blue. In October they turn almost every other color of the rainbow, including all possible shades of red. Some reach the barely believable degree of saturation seen in this field on the way to Calais.

Side note that I think is important here: Calais is pronounced like callus.

Another note that is not important: I have a friend who for years thought there were “blueberry barons” in Maine.