hot days and finally cooler nights

The air smells of fall

school clothes and new socks

the big retailers are adding a dash of cinnamon

to everything

pumpkinizing 

as it's known in the trades

trying to sell 

the scratch

to some primitive seasonal itch. 

Locally areas of night and morning fog

and low clouds

finally bringing temperatures

down to cinnamony seasonal temperatures

and if the lower temps

cuts back on the

temperature sensitive lifecycle

of ants and mosquitoes 

so much the better.

Now where are my Uggs?