autumn

The kids keep asking me when winter will officially be here. I've had to explain that, even though there are dates on the calendar that declare when a season officially starts, nature doesn't pay much attention to that sort of thing. It's been drippy here, and the leaves are mostly off the trees. We have yet to get a really solid freeze, if one at all, but I'm ok with autumn for a while longer. It feels appropriate the my first real fall in a few years would linger.

(novel update: 22k+ words and still have plenty of plot to go. I'm feeling good about getting to 50k by the end of the month.)