November magic

Today I'm going to meet an LJ friend in person. This never, ever gets old. So many friends here have become people whom I see out in the wide world too, and I love it. (Others I still know only online, but I count you as true friends, too.)

Yesterday I went to get some apples, to have some fresh fruit to offer. At the orchard, they'd moved some hives onto the loading dock, and the bees were buzzing around, glinting in the sun, and the fragrance! Sweet, sweet beeswax. It was marvelous: November...