Nature Done Wright

Don Torino's latest column for wildnewjersey.tv is on the last flowers of summer — including that Celery Farm favorite, Jewelweed.

Here's the beginning:

 It feels very different outside now, despite the recent hot weather one you can feel summer slowly fading away.

I am not sure if everyone can sense it. Maybe only those that keep connected to nature know for sure change is on the way without looking at a calendar.

The Leaves are slowly turning beginning to turn their autumn russets, reds and yellows, the breezes are a little crisper in the morning and even the clouds now take on their fall shades telling those that are paying attention that the season’s changes will soon be here.

The last blossoms of New York Ironweed still hang on to the last waiting for the butterflies that still depend on them.

The link is here.

Note in the photo above, by Alice Leurck, you can see how Jewelweed got its name — see how the water beads up on the leaf, like little jewels?