October in Lugano is typically a time when the shorter days begin to feel more like winter and less like summer. To be sure, in the 15 or so years that I’ve lived in the region, Lugano has always presented its residents with an almost unfair share of what I knew back in Michigan as “Indian Summers.” This year feels different, however. Over the past month, summer-like days have dominated the October weatherscape and people are still doing their weekend walks and yardwork in shorts and short-sleeved shirts. On my evening walks, I don’t smell woodsmoke nearly as often as I did in past Octobers. My cache of firewood has yet to be summoned and most days the doors and windows of my house are left wide open. One benefactor of this atypical October is the forest mushrooms. On my wooded walks from work-to-home, I’ve noticed fungi I’ve not noticed before. In an ever-warming global climate, at least one organism seems it may have the necessary agilities its needs to thrive.
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