Southeastern Massachusetts Magazine

  It was a lovely day for a cranberry bog walk. I try to avoid pestering the workers as I pester the workers. The cranberry bog people supplement their income with some wind turbines. The bogs and turbines are on the Bourne/Plymouth town lines, I'm not sure which  town I was in when I was shooting. Buzzards Bay is a village in Bourne, as well as a body of water. That's my man Big Jake, pullin' in the berries with a fat rake. This farm is actually rather massive, and they work sections of the bogs at a time. Our hosts today...  This is a literal truckload of cranberries. From the bog to the truck to Ocean Spray... to you! Ocean Spray has a big processing plant in nearby Carver, Massachusetts. Video below, and sorry for the shaky...

  Route 105 mostly Marion, Acushnet, Rochester, Lakeville, Middleboro, Halifax... click on any picture to make it Bigga... Perfect day for a Sunday drive One of the fun parts of getting old is that this looks more and more like a tree on fire every year I age. Mattapoisett River I shot this poorly, had to level it, then had to choose between making the trees level or making the sign level. I chose neither. I didn't really edit much for color or brightness, this is just what my camera did when we snap-shotted a few from the highway. I think the only edited one, brightness/color-wise, was the East Middleboro 4-H picture a few shots down below. After the 105 run, we dipped up 58 North, cut over to 123, visited my brother, then headed for the highway through Hanover  Route 105 rules not only for her trees, but because it is a lightly-travelled road where you can just stop in the middle of the road and bang away with Momma Camera. If you have a girl to watch traffic behind you, all the

  Fall Foliage is coming on slow this season, with some news outlets saying that we are close to a month behind schedule . This is Bourne, Cape side, where almost everything is still green. We basically went up Route 105, from Marion to Halifax, before heading up Route 58. This part of New England sort of loses the foliage lottery every year, at least compared to heavyweights like Vermont or New Hampshire. We turn over late, and there are no mountains from which to view a colorful valley. In southeastern Massachusetts, you can only see as far as the tallest tree allows. We were forced to go for lakes to get shots with a bit of positive vantage point to them. In this article, those two lakes are Long Pond in Lakeville and Monponsett Lake(s) in Halifax. I should add that, to those who seek foilage, the game is often changing by the day, and a too-early fruitless trip one Sunday could be followed by a too-late return trip the following Sunday where the leaves peaked and then went brown. I