New England fall foliage...it may be the only thing that makes New England winters worth putting up with.

"Dean's House"

In October I took a trip to Vermont with Dean, Shehong and Zho Wei (my Chinese Foreign Policy professor and her husband). We stayed at his quaint little camp on a lake, and ventured out into Vermont's folliage.

"Base Camp"

"Red Sox fan"

"Tractor n' Trees"

"Fresh Eggs"

"Stillness"

October was not just a month for leaf-peeping (as Vermonters like to call it). It was also the month that I ran my first long distance race, the Bay State Half Marathon in Lowell, MA on October 19th. At the start line I ran into a friend from  grad school, who asked me what time I was hoping to finish in. At a distance of 13.1 Miles, I told him I was just praying to finish at all.  I finished #307 out of 673 runners, coming in at 1 hour and 54 minutes.

"#599"

"307th place"