In Mostly Black and White

I'm always surprised when September comes.

 (Photo: Emily Hadden via All the Mountains)

Because it always RAINS!

(Source unknown this and following pic - sorry!) 

right on schedule.

 Even in southern California.

 (via ChristelleisFlabbergasting)

(Sabrina Meyns via Poema Bat Soilik)

So here's a post steeped in grisaille.

(via laat-mij-in-die-waan tumblr)

Have I already posted this cobbley street with its ragged trees?

(can't for the life of me figure out where I found this one and the one pic below)

We must be terribly clever human beings after all these years

to cue our calendars right up alongside the caprices of Nature.

(Photo: Robert Frank)

Because now that it's September, it's hard to imagine that Mother Nature could possibly know

(DottieAngel)

that a human calendar page has been turned, and with it, the summer sandals left behind

(via Iloverainandcoffee tumblr also below)

and heavier, gloomy foul weather gear pulled out of cabinets and closets.

As I sat.  Posting this post.  Big fat drops of rain fell hard on my keyboard.

And Los Angeles was covered in dark clouds.  How does that happen?  Couldn't we fool Mother Nature into thinking that it's still summer a little while longer?