Silent Running

I mentioned the horse chestnut trees in Harvey West Park. The leaves were not just brown, they're falling off. As I walked past them a song came to me, Joan Baez singing from 40 years ago, from the rings of Saturn:

Tell them it's not too late,
cultivate -- one by one.
Tell them to harvest and rejoice in the sun.

The weather has not been normal this year, just ask Pakistan, or Russia. Santa Cruz has been lucky to see the sun for 4 hours a day, and even then the sea breeze doesn't allow heating.

The horse chestnut trees have decided that it is autumn. Before the blossoms had fallen away to reveal the nuts starting to grow, they've decided that summer did not happen.