Annual show-off
Western Barndoor Hill, in Granby, Conn.
“It was a radiant October day. Connecticut suggested an outrageous show-off, the low hills overflowing with autumnal brilliance, eruptions of golden leaves, friezes of crimson, the pines maintaining their sober greenness amid the blaze-like sentinels.
“All this last glory of the growing season was nevertheless contained, neat, firmly – for centuries now – under control: This was New England.’’
From the novel A Stolen Past (1985), by John Knowles (1926-2001)