Trick or Treat The evening is coming when children, and I use that term “children” loosely, will come to my door, dressed in costumes that range from cute to the macabre to the barely there. These little people will hold their bag of candy/loot in front of me, and utter the phrase “Trick or Treat”.

So, you monarch butterfly fans out there, are you preparing your Asclepias seeds for cold stratification this fall? “Asclep….” what? Cold Strat…huh?” Let me re-phrase that: “Are you winterizing your milkweed seeds this fall?’ For those who collect milkweed seeds for developing or extending their own crop of butterfly habitat, the first hard frost of fall is a good time to consider planting milkweed seeds, especially those you recently collected from the flurry of puffy, seed-bearing wisps scattered by the winds this fall. Those seeds can be planted now or collected next spring.

I don’t spend a lot of time on television - whether it be television shows, or movies. I’ve shocked people with my lack of knowledge about classic movies -having never watched most of them.

What a beautiful weekend and what a beautiful week it followed. And yet, my leaves lay where they fell. No gumption to go out and do anything. I am enjoying just going out and sitting and holding and petting cats and watching the leaves fall. Does that count?