As I was leaving work today, rather late and rather lonely, I saw these two girls walking together. For reasons inexplicable to me, one girl was holding an ENORMOUS leaf. And it was orange. It was the 5 pointed kind (some New Englander I am…), maybe a maple, maybe an oak. To any extent, it me made me even sadder for the East Coast.

You can’t get maple sugar candy here.
There will be no “first snow.”

Oh well.