Archive for September 15th, 2005I have a new story*, and it’s up in draft form, but it’s fall here in Missoula, and with a nod to Leslie, a list of the Top Ten Things I Miss About Fall in Ohio
–Wandering the grounds at the apple orchard in Kent –Hot apple cider around a bonfire after a hayride –Walking through people’s leaf piles on the devilstrip –Clove gum –Watching the Great Blue Herons as they prepare to leave the rookery –Indian Summer –Getting up before the sun and walking the Square before anyone else is awake –The ache in my muscles after having raked a huge lawn not mine –Dad’s homemade beef and barely soup *Story to post tomorrow. It’s incomplete, but I stuck to the rules of 30 minutes of freewriting and no editing. |