mid-September

September 15, 2007 on 9:52 pm | In personal |

I think fall is creeping around the corner. The weather is really gorgeous right now — sunny, but with a slight chill to make a run through the park pleasant. It’s a very brisk and clear temperature. Sometimes it rains to renew the fresh scent.

The farmers are harvesting their corn. Kevin and I went to the Farmer’s Market this morning, and I had some corn on the cob for lunch. When corn is that fresh, it has a distinctly sweet flavor — not at all like what corn should taste like, but instead something short of divine. We plan to go apple-picking soon, since there’s an orchard nearby. The apples from here are a little bubbly, with an almost champagne-like aftertaste.

Although the leaves didn’t fall yet, I know it’s approaching. If you look closely at the forest trees in the park, they seem a little less green, a little more pale than usual. The mosquitoes have died with the first cold snap. So have the fireflies. The Canadian geese are starting to fly south; they make V-Shaped patterns in the big blue sky.