Passing the Peak. Musings on an October Day

Photo by Bernd Schulz on Unsplash

I was late to the gym yesterday, but there was a reason for it.

The Pacific Northwest is pooling blood right now, in the best possible way. Great wide skirts of blood orange are scattered at the bases of all the maples in town. After a few weeks of utterly magnificent color, the leaves are twisting away in the afternoon breezes to make a carpet…