Top Ten List
I 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
- –Decaying leaves, wet wood, sun dappled paths in the CVNP (OK, I practically stole that one from Leslie, I know)
–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.
Fall is different in Montana – Ohio is not too far from a NY fall. . .
What’s the devilstrip?
Beef & mushroom barley soup is planned for tomorrow.
a devilstip is the space of grass between the sidewalk and the main lawn, neartest the street. Also known in some parts as a “tree lawn”. I knew someone would ask.
Sorry I didn’t get to post earlier. I have a connection now, so I’ll post shortly (the story).
Wish I could be there for the soup KKM.
autumn has a melancholy beauty. it’s about putting down roots and turning in. but sometimes i want to run from it.
summer’s insouciance is alluring and liberating, but like an elusive crush.