Summer into fall

—Photo by fir0002 

“The fields pulsate yet with the sound of cricket and cicada…{The} ponds lie there misty, warm, seductive. One day camouflaged as summer, fall can easily toss off this disguise and appear as prophet: cold, wet, angry.’’

— Anne Bernays, in “Fall,’’ in New England: The Four Seasons.

Meteorological summer ends on Aug. 31