“I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.” — Helen Hunt Jackson
“Sneeze-bringers and seed-bearers, full of bees and yellow beads and perfect flowerlets…” So writes poet Mary Oliver when describing the infamous goldenrod. To author Stephen King, they are “that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation.” What would you write?
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Final Taste of Glory — Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2018