CNCHnet Journal: The Mid-Autumn Issue
by Kathy Koos
The autumn solstice has passed us by, and it is finally feeling like fall! Earlier in the month we were treated to an aurora borealis display, and last week, a comet briefly passed by within our viewing.
I took an elderly friend up to Carson Pass and Hope Valley last week for some leaf-peeping. The aspens did not disappoint. With the unseasonably warm October, I was beginning to think it was Never-Ending Summer.
While we seem to have been spared a bad fire season (at least as of this writing on October 20), the eastern US has just been hammered by hurricanes spawned from record-breaking ocean temperatures. Keep our East Coast artisan friends in your thoughts as they face a lengthy, costly recovery