Fall Comes to South Florida

The Lake Worth municipal beach on October 10, looking north at Benny's and the pier.

It happened. It's always like this. It happens all of a sudden. You look up one day and say to yourself: "What is it? What's changed? Something is different." And then you realize that the palm trees are rustling, that the air is clear, and the stickiness is gone.

Fall has come to Florida, finally. It happened yesterday. The air all of a sudden was clear...almost crisp. Maybe not exactly crisp. But it felt crisp compared to the day before, and the week before, when you felt weighted down by the humidity and wondered when it would finally go away.

The weather yesterday and so far today has been extraordinary....so different, such a relief, so pleasant, so lovely. I hear rustling now, of pine trees and palm fronds, and the sky outside my window is exceptionally blue with a few cheerful looking white clouds here and there.

The beach as also been extraordinary, the ocean still warm and the sand not as hot. We go there in the evenings and stay until it is almost dark.