Happy Astronomical Autumn!

September 22, 2025

This afternoon we have gone from summer into autumn. I adore living in an area that has four seasons, getting to experience each one’s splendors.

This is a picture of Jack-In-The-Pulpit berries (Arisaema triphyllum). They turn this brilliant shade of scarlet in early autumn.

Each of the berries generally contains one to five off-white seeds. The seeds that germinate the following spring create seedlings with just a single, round leaf. Those seedlings will need three years, or more, to become mature enough to produce a flower.

Jack-in-the-pulpit, a plant of spring, summer and autumn.

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Brenda Clements Jones

Brenda is a certified Virginia Master Naturalist, a Habitat Defender for Shenandoah National Park, and a devoted fan of Mother Nature. She lives in a cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Shenandoah National Park, and hikes up to the higher elevations of her mountain often to see what nature is up to. Her constant hiking companion is a camera that captures nature as it unfolds through the seasons. It’s her goal to share the natural world around her through her photographs.