just a tiny hint of fall

We had a lovely, lovely cool front show up Thursday evening — I got to the pool at 5:30, and when I had to get out at 6:00 it was NOTICEABLY cooler. Not actually CHILLY, mind you, but ... cooler. Its effect was not at all evident yesterday afternoon, when it was still hot, but last night it went down to UNDER SEVENTY DEGREES. Open the door! Open the windows! Turn on the attic fan!

The Farmers' Market that is so conveniently located on my street-corner is, rather amazingly, still going strong in September, thanks to the odd weather this year. Last year it was so hot and dry the vendors were all gone by July. This year, with thirty-plus inches of rain by that time, the spring was very poor for most of them. Many of their squashes rotted in standing water. But now after a not-very-hot summer, the crops are still going.

The young man who has tomatoes (if you get there early enough) says the fall crop is coming on, and the summer vines are still producing, so there may be only a week or so that's tomato-less. The picture above shows the cantaloupe, peaches (in September?!), okra, squash, and peppers I spent $14 on, at about 10:30 this morning. I was hoping for tomatoes, but I would have had to get up earlier.