"Fall colors, like so many other things this year, have arrived a bit early----maybe even a month or so," posts Marianne Love/Slight Detour.  "The irony is that we've hardly had a freeze.  I noticed yesterday that my apples, usually ready in late October, look ready to pick." More here.

• Listen to Bernie/Fort Boise
• Dear Apple/David Bond, Rants
• Night at the library/War Bonds
• Old enough to know better/Slice
• An Aha! moment/Dogwalk Musings
• Oh my aching everything/Simple Mind
• Oktoberfest countdown: Polka power/On Tap
• GU Law School film takes you to Africa/7 Blog
• Blue-tongue outbreak killing area deer/Outdoors
• So much more to QB than just throwing ball/Grip

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