Into November

Hometowns, snacks, leaves

Happy gourds, nasturtium studies in the kitchen, lichen on rocks at the northern tip of Lake Michigan.

I stayed in my hometown, Ann Arbor, until I was 25. It was not a big city, just a mid-sized university town surrounded by smaller towns and farmland. In my hometown there was a great deal of effort put into creating and maintaining green space. My commu…