TEN THINGS I LIKE ABOUT OCTOBER

1. Foliage. This is New England, after all.
2. Cool evenings. You snuggle under the blankets, sleeping with the windows cracked slightly open.
3. Apple Harvest Day outreach. Meet a Quaker’s our pitch.
4. Mums in pots everywhere.
5. Butternut squash soup.
6. My annual survey of Charles Ives symphonies and then George Whitefield Chadwick’s.
7. Pumpkins as décor … and as crisps and pies. Although we’re rather appalled by its spread into coffee and beer.
8. Fresh unpasteurized apple cider.
9. Sitting in the loft of the barn again, reading.
10. Intense full moonlight.

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What do you like about October?

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