{"id":21478,"date":"2018-09-29T10:03:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T14:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=21478"},"modified":"2018-09-29T10:03:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T14:03:08","slug":"fall-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2018\/09\/29\/fall-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21480\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2018\/09\/pumpkinspotd-1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21480\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21480\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2018\/09\/pumpkinspotd-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2018\/09\/pumpkinspotd-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2018\/09\/pumpkinspotd-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2018\/09\/pumpkinspotd-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pumpkins near Spragueville NY. Photo of the Day archive: Steve Diehl, Antwerp NY.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of my neighbors was sighting in his hunting guns the other morning. You could tell because of the long delay between each crack, followed at the end by a quick volley, then again with a gun of lower pitch. Another neighbor was still getting in firewood &#8211; the sound of his chain saw alternating with the solid chunk of a splitting maul.<\/p>\n<p>Geese are starting to fly in formation and the nights are cooling down toward the frost point. I hear hammers pounding as procrastinators decide they are running out time to finish their roof repairs. And I hear a rototiller, turning the garden debris under to fertilize a new spring.<\/p>\n<p>There is a tang of wood smoke in the air as stoves start their heating season labors, and a tang of something else I can&#8217;t quite name, as if you could smell the leaves turning color.<\/p>\n<p>Cider donuts are in the store and islands of sorted pumpkins decorate a lawn beside the highway. $1 to $7, the sign says. Apples taste amazing again, after a long season of mealy substitutes. It&#8217;s soup season, and sauce season and pickle season &#8211; anything to stash away the summer&#8217;s abundance.<\/p>\n<p>All is as it should be in the fat of the year. Breathe deep, walk far; the woods are beginning to glow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my neighbors was sighting in his hunting guns the other morning. You could [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21481,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21478\/revisions\/21481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}