"Fall is the time of year for chilly mornings, crunchy leaves, pumpkins and apple cider. Being from California this also means that chilly mornings quickly turn in to hot afternoons, leaving one to wonder if mother nature is going through menopause, and while you can’t throw a rock around here without hitting a pumpkin spice latte, the leaves are still pretty much green and clinging stubbornly to the branches. By the time we get actual fall most of the rest of the country is covered in snow."

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