Summer has left us in the dust here in the mountains an hour and change north of Los Angeles. Went out to feed the birds this morning, about 8am. There was frost on the deck railing. Temperature? 39 degrees.
We've been up here going on seven years now. Lowest it has ever gotten was 6 degrees last winter. I bet we dip below zero for the first time...and if we do, I bet the news doesn't report on it!
But before I go off on a tangent...just finished my last summer pipe, C&D Folklore (sample) in my Stefano Santambrogio bent Rhodesian. Thermometer said 55, felt colder than that. Methinks it's going to be a brutal winter...
All in all, I'm glad my favorite season has finally arrived. Time for some goopy aromatics...I'm lookin' at you, Moontrance!