Yes, the season has returned in Western Massachusetts when maple leaves turn yellow or red and blow in a golden wind when they fall off. The picture shown here is a New Mexican version of those colors. It's the time when cars loaded with so-called "leaf-peepers" with some regularity.
Inside the house, most of our time goes to reading books. Gerry is a member of three book clubs. The selections other members have proposed include TRACKS by Louise Erdrich, set in western Virginia in the Civil War period, FROZEN RIVER, Ariel Lawhon's novel about a widwife in rural Maine late in the eighteenth century, and KAIROS, by Jenny Erpenbeck that features a tawdry love affair between a young woman (19 to 20 years old) and a married man in his fifties. Some background on East and West Germany before the Berlin Wall came down in the late 1980s serves as the historical context of their affair. Dorothy, meanwhile, is half way through Tom Wolfe's A MAN IN FULL--700 pages, but engrossingly written so she's thoroughly enjoying it.
Now we turn to autumn activities: harvesting the last green beans (the only crop we planted this year), beginning to bring in the frost-vulnerable potted plants that spent the summer outdoors, their moment in the sun, and taking down window air conditioners and putting up storm windows in their place.