#autumn

#autumn

Its caramel-vanilla sweetness and oaky warmth feel built for sweaters and long shadows, so pairing it with a harvest fruit like persimmon just makes sense. The fruit's honeyed flesh echoes bourbon's richness, while its bright, custardy sweetness rounds the edges of the alcohol. Together, they're like sweet cream and burnt sugar meeting halfway, amplifying each other's depth. Those warm flavors are written into bourbon's very aging process.

Black walnuts hitting a barn roofFairly rapped the morning.          Massachusetts,Autumn. Orioles and pumpkins.And the crack of those round shellsLike a hardwood mallet hammering a wedgeInto the moment, splitting it ever open Up ahead, letting it travel with us,Us into it, articulatedOngoing: whatever was to happen nextAnticipated as half-consciouslyAs the smack of the next mailed walnutOn the roof, but at exactly what Interval none of us could tell.

Mark your calendar: Wednesday, September 17, 2025, will be the final day the sun sets at or after 7pm in New York City. Sunset will officially hit at 7:01pm, with sunrise at 6:38 am-just over 12 hours and 22 minutes of daylight. Consider it your last chance to leave the office and still pretend you've got hours of daylight left.