Living in an urban, Mediterranean-style climate, sometimes the seasons just seem to pass by without many physical changes. Really, living here, the best indicator of a change in seasons is when you start to use the defroster instead of the AC on your car.

Even now, over halfway through October, it gets up to 80 degrees in the afternoons. Now that we finally finished repainting the house, every day I crave for rain, for fog, for bloodred leaves.

Fall is always my favorite time of year...