Ingredients for a Lovely Fall Sunday

10. First edition of The Amateur Naturalist's Handbook




9. Writing cards and letters
8. Purple asters everywhere



7. a cookie jar full of Tollhouse cookies

6. Freshly-laundered quilts

5. The smell of woodsmoke

4. Latin chicken & rice with olive salsa and avocado sour cream

3. Phone calls home

2. Diamond silk & merino yarn

1. The music of Alexi Murdoch

Now off to the less lovely fall ritual of combing seed pods out a squirmy pup's curls...