we are in transition

it’s a big day in our house. today is my husband steve’s 58th birthday. it also the last day of the tax-filing extension deadline, which means his tax prep obligations are mostly done now until they start up again in january. and, perhaps most significantly, it is the day he turned in his 2nd pass of his manuscript–a memoir about our family’s deep immersion into rural languedoc, france–which will come out next year (as will mine).  when i said, yesterday, that deadlines were piling up. i meant it.

meanwhile, our fall colors got off to an early start and then seem to have stalled out. so there are an unusual number of leaves caught in transition like this one. which i love.