Autumn at Eastern Neck NWR

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I’ve been in search of our autumn colors for the last couple weeks for some pretty shots.

These were all taken at Eastern Neck NWR on October 31st.

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Common Paper Wasp nest

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View of the Chesapeake Bay from Butterfly Garden Trail

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“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it,
and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”

— George Eliot, The Writings of George Eliot, vol. 23 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1908), 71.

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