Perfect compost, equinox oddities, ancient sites

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Daily Newsletter for Tuesday, September 19, 2017

autumn apple trees

And now the autumn season waits,
In mellowing forms of fruitage.
–Stephen Henry Thayer (1839–1919)

 
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