Advisory About Comments
I need all my time, energy, and attention during the week to focus on my new job. Comments for paid subs on this post will be turned off on Sunday night, October 6, around 9pm.
Going forward, I will turn comments on for paid subs on Friday afternoons around 4:30pm and turn them off on Sunday night around 9pm (all times Eastern) for anything I published during the previous workweek. This will be announced on Substack Notes, on which I am only participating on the weekends, as well.
I apologize for the annoyance, but this is really helping me both focus and function better in my new job, which has to be my priority. Thanks for understanding.
October Glory
It’s nearly peak foliage season here in New England.
Thanks to a new job letting me re-organize my life in optimal ways, I am spending one day each weekend almost entirely offline—I still get texts via the lovely right-into-my-hearing-aids audio system of my car while driving, use Google maps for directions as needed, etc., but otherwise try very hard not to engage with screens. I am enjoying this very much.
Until winter starts turning the roads treacherous, I’m going for long drives and taking photos. Vermont is the most beautiful place on earth, which means that lovely pictures are possible despite my only tool being an iPhone.
Most of the spots I know about were overrun with other picture-takers this year, so I went to some new spots, and got fewer pictures than in previous years. So I’ve supplemented a bit — most of these are from this year but I interspersed a few of the best from my New England Autumn folder, too.
Dependent on whether or not it rains, I may go out and take more next weekend, so there may be part two.
This one is nearly all photos, so gmail in particular may go nuts. Click on the title to read it at the Substack website.
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” —L.M. Montgomery
Extra space to allow for the “unlock one post free” option that Substack offers so free subs get a chance to see what they’re missing.