Juniper Is Better Than Pumpkin Spice

These gin cocktails are perfect for our purgatory of shorts-and-sweatshirt weather.

It would be lovely if autumn were really like this. But it’s not.

Despite all the usual talk of pumpkin spice, sweater weather, and root vegetables, it’s not exactly resembling autumn around here. Though it’s already October, I don’t believe we’ve moved beyond the confusing shorts-and-sweatshirt temperatures that once upon a time were a tween-season, tra…