autumn...

'Winter days are creeping in,' the baritone horn warns in the solitary distance, as the fog rolls in every morning, nestling our homes in a thick blanket that children disappear in as they amble to school.
And I feel like a squirrel snuggled up in hibernation before my flicking fire, huddled over my crochet.  Winter is nearly upon us and the children have no mittens...

Image: Dabin Choi.  Illustration for her childerens book Knickity Knick Knack, about a squirrel knitting its own tail.