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Autumn

Fall Anyone?

06.11.2010

Sometimes the seasons ease into each other. And sometimes not. This year feels as if we went from summer bang into cold. I’m not sure what happened to fall—not that it wasn’t here briefly because it was, I saw it arrive—but I seemed to have missed the rest of it. (Yes, I know the calendar [...]

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A String of Geese

16.10.2010

Autumn is my favorite season. Not being fond of summer’s heat and humidity, I chomp at the bit for the first cool days. I also watch the trees for the slightest hint of color. Only lack of color comes first—it’s insidious the way green fades ever so slightly until one day I’ll look at the [...]

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Winter? In October?

16.10.2009

We had our first snowfall yesterday. Really. It snowed all afternoon, into nightfall. Everything was covered in white. It was beautiful—and sureal. The leaves were still on the trees. White tufts of snow, clinging to leaves like moss, felt jarring. Winter is usually white with brown and gray, not white with green and red and yellow [...]

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On Becoming A Leafer

15.10.2009

Living in New England, you see lots of out-of-towners come up to look at the fall colors. Although I’ve lived in New England all my life, yesterday I decided to be one of the legions of leafers. It was silly, I know. All I need to do is go out on my deck and look [...]

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