Whither autumn?

So Mother Nature taunts us again. Last week she dangled a few cool fall-ish days in front of our faces, just long enough to start pulling sweaters and tweeds out of mothballs, then she unleashes a full on Santa Ana. Temperatures should be in the mid to high 80's all next week.


And Malibu is burning. Again.


But for whatever reason, my neighbor's liquidamber tree is giving the finger to Mother Nature, and is wearing her fall foliage, heat be damned.