We do have seasons here in the LA basin, but they're subtle. I can tell it's Fall because the daytime temps top at about 80 and nights drop to 60. The pomegranate leaves are starting to turn yellow and fall. In early December the mulberry will start dropping leaves too. We usually don't get hard frost so most things can last all Winter. All the deciduous trees will eventually be bare.
I fired up the heater the other day to make sure it still works. The air conditioner died during a heat spell this summer due to a relay that failed. It's 19 years old so you have to expect things like that.
There's a chance of light showers on Tuesday but I'm not holding my breath. Last year we only got 5.5 inches of rain all winter.
When I was a kid we sometimes could smell the smudge pots burning in the orange groves when it got cold. Then later they changed to running big fans and you could hear them at night. That's all gone now. There is one tiny orange grove left here in town just as a memorial.
