Musings -- on the editor's mind

It might be raining when you read this or maybe about to rain again. Rain is forecast through the week. Is this the beginning of the region’s rainy season?

Don Coyote’s photo for last week’s paper so perfectly captured the reality of the first three weeks of fall weather in the western Skagit Valley: a gentle rippling, temperatures having cooled, certainly and definitely, even defiantly, now dipping below 40 degrees, now raising their head above 60 degrees. Fall had tiptoed in, without bringing blasts of rain or boisterous wind. Summer’s demise has not meant the triumph of winter.

Fall, like Sandburg’s fog, crept into the Valley on cat’s feet. More than once I have seen the morning fog, having seemingly settled in, only for it to sneak out, fading away before the a.m. hours have departed.

This fall, so far, could not be more gentle if it was scripted by central casting.

This fall may very well have claws. I will be on the watch. I don’t want to be scratched by surprise.