Why leaves change, hurricane names, apple butter

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Daily Newsletter for Monday, September 11, 2017

grape arbor

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling, 
Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard, 
Give me a field where the unmowed grass grows, 
Give me an arbor, give me the trellised grape.
–Walt Whitman (1919–92)

 
Monday, September 11, 2017
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