Tag: autumn
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Autumn Coming: Time For Pumpkin Flavored Everything
We recently had the first crisp evening that hinted at the changes to come, that feeling in the air that native Westsylvanians recognize as “a Football Night.” In the verges, the annual flora are showing wear, the color of goldenrod lines country roads and the counts of our prolific whitetail deer seen dead along the…
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Weekend Report: Kennywood, Todd Snider, Football, Apples.
I worked a late day Friday, cleaning up leaves on a pleasant autumn afternoon, under bright clear skies, the hills around we alight with gold and fiery red leaves. Fall is slipping away quickly. It always does. Since my children were young I have counseled them to keep their heads up and their eyes open…
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Autumn Puddle, Rock & Bent Trees
I’m not going to name my favorite hike in western Pennsylvania because then maybe you’ll go there.
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Homecoming Football Game
So, the Homecoming football game turned out well. It rained before and after the game, but not during, and the kids did pretty well. A news team from KDKA-2 Pittsburgh showed up–cool for the kids. Blows my mind to watch this video, though, despite being there in person: I’ve known at lot of these kids…
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Autumn Photo: Hemingway’s Bloody Mary
Ernest Hemingway didn’t invent Autumn’s most iconic cocktail–that distinction is rumored to belong to Ferdinand “Pete” Petiot, a Parisian bartender looking for ways to dress up vodka for Russian immigrants and American expatriots on the lam from Prohibtion–but the iconic American author, and legendary drinker, has been inextricably tied to the Bloody Mary thanks to…
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Autumn Photo: Yellowstone 1990
Wandering around Yellowstone with some friends way back in 1990, mid-afternoon on the road between Mammoth and Tower, we spotted a colorful grove of aspen trees. We waded out into the dry autumn grass, plopped down, and stared up and through the golden leaves at the perfect blue sky above. We dozed off and had…
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Autumn Found Photos: This Is Going to Be Difficult
An initial foray into the world of autumn posts revealed a whole lot of gifs, clip art, graphics, cute photos of other people’s children raking leaves or going on hay rides, and creepy-ish images that remind me of stuff cut-and-pasted from an LL Bean catalog. Or Sears Roebuck, even. There’s also a lot of clearly…
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Autumn Photo: Step Into Fall
We’ll see if we can keep this seasonal-themed photo thing going. This one isn’t the most vibrant, but it has a sort of subtle genius to it, don’t you think? I’m not just saying that because I took it. It’s just…obvious.
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Norris-Canyon Cut-Off Road, 9/11/90
Brothers. Bag of apples, sharp cheddar, Sixpacks and loaves of bread: Biblical fare. Binoculars, and a taped-together roadmap. Aspens rusting in meadows gone to gold, the day thick with autumn mist, wanting wool. Appalachian boys loosed in the caldera, hooting camp elk bugles from the highway, taking turns at the wheel and reading out loud…
Old Road Apples 