First snow tonight, 3,000 feet above sea level, near The Barn. The Iron Mountains in East Tennessee. | Mark Holmberg

The leaves are falling. The temps are dipping. The ghouls are prepping. If you live in cooler states, it’s time to turn your ceiling fans so they spin clockwise. (The switch is typically on the housing above the blades.) Keep it on low to ease the warm air down. Hope your fall lingers lusciously. | Mark Holmberg

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Spent Christmas Eve day walking in the sunshine with several thousand souls here on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. We probably heard 50 different languages. No one looked the same, but all were nicely dressed. No one smoked a cigarette or said a harsh word. We held doors for each other. Swapped cell phones for group photos. So many young couples, children with their parents, seniors helped along by those they created decades before . . . All haloed by rainbows and lightly kissed by the almo