Strangest Fall I’ve ever seen. Halloween has already happened and still so much green in the grass and flora and fauna. Even many of the falling leaves are green. We’re just getting into Fall colors. After some ups and downs, temperatures are just now near normal, around 40 degrees and freezing at night. We say, “The frost is on the pumpkins.”

All the tropical and save-over annual flowers from my garden are now warm and cozy and going to sleep in the greenhouse. One lone, pink phlox has been vigilantly blooming out there for the past several weeks.

I enjoy decorating for Halloween, sharing Fall dinners, and a trip to Busy Barns with the children to play with all the goats and kittens, roll in the shucked corn ‘sandbox’, get lost in the corn maze, and chuck pumpkins.

As for my writing, I’m a fiction writer, who makes up stories and characters. But now I’m working on a coming-of-age story of a young girl on a tobacco farm. In addition to creating my main character, I have to follow the seasons of the tobacco growing and harvest, follow the age of the child on the farm, and remain in the years 1940-50. I’m learning to write whole new genres of biography, history and farming.  A challenge for sure, but fun.

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