Look at the little pink piggy, kids! Isn’t he cute? Now let’s eat him!

This, of course, is the Autumnal Equinox, the official end of summer and the start of Colder Times. Of course, somebody forgot to tell the Nevada Department of Weather, because those little desert monkeys are churning out another 90 degree day today. Oh well, that’s what I get for living here.

We only get a few weeks of fall, anyway, just like we only have a few weeks of spring. It won’t start to cool down until October, and then right around Nevada Day (last weekend in October) the temperature drops like 20 degrees in three days.

Walking through the west side of Carson City on the First Cold Night of the year, with the leaves swirling all around? Bliss.