One day in mid-September…

This photo does not do justice to what I saw today; a whole hillside full of gray dogwood with the sunlight catching the magenta stems, set against the wine-red and stilll-green leaves sprinkled with white berries.  I was gobsmacked. I was on a quiet side-road and screeched to a stop to see what it was. It was one of the prettiest early-autumn displays I have ever seen. I could not capture the magnitude and splendor of the display for STILL. So you get just this little snippet. But if you let your imagination run, you can probably conjure up a hillside of slant September light lighting up these magenta stems set against the deep wine-red leaves. Breathtaking.

gray dogwood (Cornus racemosa)