Sometimes the fall colors here are simply shocking in their intensity. The first shot is one I must have taken 4 or 5 times over the course of the fall, and the tree's leaves just kept getting more and more vivid. The Canada Geese below near their island on the Bass Pond seem to be a pretty large group this year, and largely indifferent to the human visitors nearby. Occasionally they will swim over to the boathouse or the dam bridge for scraps of bread thrown by estate visitors.

The Japanese Maple above is another tree that you simply cannot believe is real, even when you stand there looking at it. The color simply doesn't seem to be something that nature could produce. This one is right by the entrance to the Italian Garden. The shot below is from the meadow above the bass pond. The surrounding trees look like someone has been painting them.