Don completed the ground-knowledge book in October of the fifteenth year.He said it on an afternoon in October — a Thursday, not a bread Wednesday, the other kind of Thursday, the Thursday with the quality of October: the light at the specific October angle, the estate in its drawing-in season, the kitchen garden in the post-harvest state.The October light was different from the light of other months. It came at an angle, low and golden, the sun no longer overhead but moving toward the horizon even in the middle of the day. The shadows were longer. The colors were richer — the oranges and browns and deep greens of the estate preparing for winter. The kitchen garden was in its post-harvest state: the vegetables had been gathered, the beds had been cleared, the compost had been turned. The foxgloves were in their crowns at the ground's surface, the visible evidence of the plant's intention for the next spring. The quince trees were heavy with fruit — the last harvest before the seedli
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