Tuesday, October 09, 2007




First snows and hard frosts. Dry skin, digging out winter layers, reassessing the wood pile. Winter is coming and coming fast. Snow geese flying past frozen lakes. They're flying south and we're flying north.

It was a whirlwind visit home, full of harvest moon, fresh orchard apples, kayaking in a handmade boat along the fox while flushing out herons and kingfishers, long bike rides in the country side to the sound of crickets and grasshoppers, and digging in the dirt to create a new garden bed. The time was gone before I knew it, half the things on my list of fun things to do, left undone. It was comforting to see some things left unchanged, while most things seemed to move all too fast. There were heat lightning storms and countless laughs and smiles, a trip up north in time to see peak colors and the festivities of Oktoberfest. Mom, can you send more cheese curds?