When did we begin this tradition on Halloween of who do you want to be? Play, have fun, you can turn into anyone tonight — a dryad in birch bark, a unicorn, any being you can imagine …
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My old neighborhood magnetically attracts Trick-or-treaters, and by about 5 that afternoon people were showing up so often that I stopped trying to close the door and just sat on the porch in the sun ...
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The season of ghosts is returning — with cornfield mazes and caramel apples, and jack-o-lanterns, and candles in the dark.
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I have to wonder what kind of shapeshifter is visiting the Naumkeag Pumpkin Show tonight. Families are talking on the garden path … and we’re surrounded by creatures made of fire.
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The world is turning bare in the sunlight. A few days ago the temperature fell below freezing, and the hillsides changed shape overnight. Time is turning …
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What does trick-or-treating look like in the mountains? The night smells of fall, pumpkins, apples and chocolate …
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A small flame in a wide, dark night has magic in it. When the sun sets early and the wind blows down from Canada, we still light them. And in this season I’m wondering who the Berkshires still makes them.
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My nephew asks me why I don’t live in California. He’s three years old, and he means he’d like to see me, and I’d like to see him too. But how can I explain to someone on the West Coast why I live here?
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A luna moth made out of firelight is glimmering in the leaves. Jack o-lanterns hang like lanterns, carved with petals and wings …
Read articleSunny fall days comfort us with apples (#Berkshireweekend)
Some of us picked up bags of apples from Lakeview Orchard — Macouns, Honeycrisps, Cortlands — and some were setting up in a friend’s kitchen …
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