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 S...