Finally, Sunday morning, October 18, we had our first freeze of the season, and it wasn’t even a hard killing one. We knew it was coming. The night before, I stripped the last of the tomatoes, picked whatever basil I wanted, grabbed some of the last autumn roses, and called the garden year finished, well…
Month: October 2026
If I make a pot of something special, will you help us stack some wood?
There’s something about the light this time of year that gives one pause; not quite stark winter light, but more a luminescent cast that makes color dance. Shadows deepen, and when night falls it does so like a curtain dropping with no long summer twilight. The temperatures change quickly too. We’ll be outside appreciating the…
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‘Tis the season of lasts! But don’t worry, there’s more to come!
The foliage is brilliant this year! Maybe I always say that. But we’ve had no driving rains here to knock the fragile leaves off the trees, nor fierce winds. Of course it depends on where you are in New England with the higher elevations showing a lot more color right now, and many areas were…
