Lamoille County neighborhoods are just a few days from being overrun with brightly attired Barbies and Marios, creepy killer dolls and traditional witches, vampires and werewolves.

Every gardener has a fall to-do list to complete: pulling annuals, raking leaves and storing hoses and other garden tools. They aren’t the most exciting tasks, but planning for your spring garden now saves time next year.

Like the foliage roiling through surrounding hills, the pastry case at Two Sons Bakehouse in Hyde Park is a display of true autumnal feeling.

Organizers have moved the date and location of Indigenous Peoples Day Rocks! indoors to Sunday form 12-5 p.m. in the Akeley Memorial Building on Main Street. The change was made because of the weather.

Steepled white churches with soaring spires. Lush town greens ringed by white-board fence. Centuries-old farmsteads. Stately town buildings of a bygone era. A general store, perhaps. Those ubiquitous rows of old sugar maples, turning to red, yellow, orange, brown.

Colorful leaves aren’t the only thing to see on Vermont roads this fall. Lamoille County has long been known as the covered bridge capital of Vermont.

Two new exhibits, “Land & Light & Water & Air” and “Nature’s Abstraction,” are now showing at the Bryan Gallery.

Jim Westphalen is up on a wintery Saturday morning, driving through Sheldon, Vermont to photograph an old 19th-century cow barn — all that’s left of a once thriving farmland built along the old Missisiquoi railroad line that was destroyed by a fire.

Earlier this summer, Jim and Yva Rose went all in on the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail. That was before Mother Nature went all in on destroying much of the 93-mile path that had just officially opened end to end last winter.

Featuring the hottest young band in the scene, Dogs in a Pile returns to the Oxbow Music Festival on Saturday, Aug. 19, 3-11 p.m., along with the Seth Yacovone Band, Hayley Jane duo and Woody & Sunshine.