Gretchen Steele: October’s quiet magic now playing across Illinois

October doesn’t exactly arrive in southern Illinois – it drifts in, slow and sure, like the morning fog rising off the river bottoms.
One week you’re still swatting mosquitoes and cutting grass, and the next, you’re pulling on a flannel before daylight and smelling wood smoke in the air. Somewhere between the last hum of cicadas and the first rustle of dry leaves, we turn the corner.

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