orange

The sun was bright, the temperatures hovered in the upper-60s, and leaves of maple, oak, aspen and ginkgo trees colored the city with splashes of yellow, orange and red.

The trucks arrive to a clearing in the brush, a stacked DIY sound system is set up like an altar, orange light streams through the branches in the trees shadowing the night sky.

Wearing a blouse decorated with orange poppies, the bespectacled Barrios looked every bit the polite pol that O.C. leaders had taken her to be.

The filling is jammy and rich, jarred fig jam brightened with chopped dates and an almost scandalous amount of orange zest, so every mouthful tastes like autumn sunlight and just a hint of mischief.

Colleges and universities may object that I’m comparing apples and oranges.