Never have I seen the seasons change so suddenly and dramatically. Last week was definitely Summer, this week is obviously Fall, ushered in Saturday with the most violent thunder and lightning storms I've ever seen, at least in California.
I talked to a local friend over the weekend, someone Bako born and raised, and she said no one in her family had ever seen anything like it. The lightning was so vicious Saturday night that they did the unthinkable... they called off several football games. For Bakersfield, that's like postponing the Second Coming.
The lightning also sparked over 40 wildfires which have made the notoriously bad air here even worse.
But there is an upside.
Last night, as I took the dogs out for their evening walk, the full harvest moon was rising in the east and it was so intensely orange it looked like the Great Pumpkin.
Fall is definitely in the air.
Or maybe it's just soot.
