Month: September 2024

On the television news this week, one of the reporters made an off-the-cuff remark about the beginning of fall, “every Michigander’s favorite season.”  Could that possibly be true?  It’s true for my sweetheart and me, and for the friends and relations I’ve been asking.  Fall in Michigan is, after all, pretty great.      For a… Continue reading Autumn Wonders

Grass spiders all over the neighborhood were working hard last night.  It’s easy to tell, as they unveiled their work in the first morning light.  The work is, itself, like veils.  Grass spider webs do not resemble anything Charlotte turned out for Wilbur.  They look like netting draped over blades of grass.  Or bits of… Continue reading Lightbulbs Flashing

Our little dog is getting old.  He still loves his walks, but he’s pretty clear on not needing to interact with other dogs who are out walking.  In part, this seems to be because, if we fall in with friends out with their dogs, we don’t walk as far.  Those other dogs, whether by ability… Continue reading Driving a Sheep

September has arrived, and the weather has done its first-of-September pivot, with nighttime temperatures in the forties and days in the seventies.  Dave Rexroth, chief meteorologist for Seven Action News, tells us that the first of September marks the beginning of meteorological fall.  Weather folks, it turns out, calculate seasons in three-month chunks that start… Continue reading September Quickening