On October first it was like clockwork, and the air changed here – it's drier, the ground is harder, and the wind blew most of the leaves from the trees. We harvested everything outside except for the carrots. The flowers that delighted me all summer kept putting out buds like they had no clue winter was coming, and since they were going to die outside …
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