the leaves

being scarlet-golden-bright orange-chestnut-maroon-beige

and

scattered across the

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path,

broken with patches of quartz-granite-dusty brown dirt,

sound of bikers-hikers-horses,

our own meandering conversation

and the occasional

bird-squirrel-stream water flowing-airplane

and is that a moose?

Sometimes, october is the best season-

not autumn.

However, june-lilacs are blooming-may

is still my favorite.

See you on the other side of snow-ice-sledding-hot cocoa-school

or hot-sun-swimming in a lake-camp

i do love an in-between