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[dogeared]

I confess, I haven't meant to be so entirely absent (or, more accurately, lurking quietly) this month, but I had a mean cold that kept me down and out for a lot of it, and I don't really know where the rest went. I do know that I spent the last couple of days at a friend's house about an hour north, where there was a beautiful hard frost covering all the branches and stalks and milkweed pods in the arboretum every morning (except this morning, which is the morning when I brought my camera, AHEM), and we saw something that was either a beaver or a muskrat, twice, and wild turkeys visited the yard regularly. (I tried to take their picture, too-they calmly walked away, hopped over a low rock wall one by one, and rustled off to blend into the brown-leafed woods.)

And now I am back, and I caught up on the latest H50 with sheafrotherdon, who was kind enough to watch it again with me. OH TEAM; LOL STEVE (a post-road rash TLC story, written about two years ago and now suddenly relevant, is here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/140202).

And tonight, I am making a big pot of carrot-tomato soup with what must surely be the last of the summer tomatoes, bought at the farmers' market last week, which is satisfying my urge for Thanksgiving-time cooking, yum.

SO, HI.

P.S. I am on tumblr a bit here-it is currently 96% Tyler Hoechlin's scruffy face, which you can take as either a warning or an incentive :D