Monthly Archives: October 2008

The rainy season has not yet started, and Mother Earth has seen fit to give us a long stretch of beautiful clear days, which is forecast to continue through next Wednesday. Fall colors are at their peak, and temperatures warm … Continue reading →

As of today I have been in Oregon exactly one month, though as will all transition times it seems much longer than that. So long, in fact, that already this summer is fading into a warm cobwebby neural network of … Continue reading →

The average first frost date in Minnesota is about September 25. The average first frost date in Corvallis is October 25. So nineteen out of twenty years it probably freezes earlier in Minnesota. Not this year. We dropped to 29.3 … Continue reading →