Fall

The Fall Equinox is today

I have been heralding its coming for weeks now

Every time I do

it gets more summer like

It's made me stop and think

when is fall?

Someone said that fall

is when you have to start wearing socks again

Clay Fin says it's fall because the Halloween decorations are out

The Equinox is the definitive answer,

the socks thing

is good

but varies

person to person

and

place to place

Halloween is a just another

ripoff

of honorable

Pagan traditions

(but I love those little candies)

So I have to conclude it's Fall

when the winds start,

the Santa Ana winds

the Diablo winds

the Off Shore winds!

In SoCal

the general weather patterns change

and large areas of high pressure

sit and spin

hundreds of miles

inland

We are at the bottom of the rotation and the winds

rush off shore

Why this makes some fool start a fire

I'll never know

But once they start

No one can stop them

Full moon

Fire in the canyon

All night long

The efforts are strictly aimed at preserving

life and property

and it puts me in a sort of quandary,

I like what the winds do to the surf

but I hate what they do to anything in the path of the flames

Autumn breezes

grooming wind swell

burn down the house

My car is covered

with the ashes

of neighbors hopes and dreams

So not to close on too much of a bummer

If the decorations are up

and you are wearing socks

doing your fall rituals

and its smoky outside

it's fall