Looking out my Backdoor: October, Sweet October

Editor's note: See Festival photos at www.havredailynes.com.

October is the sweetest month, well, unless one is up to one's hocks in snow, and not the first snow of the year at that! Betrayed by September, that generally docile month.

October, sing raptures of October. Hay is stacked, grain is harvested, garden largess fills rows of jewel-toned jars in the cellar. Yearlings crowd trailers on the way to market. Bank account is fat.

Whoa - don't forget to sing flip side of that nostalgic song while meandering the autumnal path. Snow, gray skies, wind, winterize the house, the vehicles. W...