On Monday, the HVAC went on at work and it took a second to figure out if it was the air conditioning or heat. It has been that sorta fall. It was the AC. The heat sounded off the very next day.

I clammed much of Saturday and came home 150 hard-shells to the good but sporting a sunburned face, the color of a fall maple leaf. Speaking of which, the arriving week-long jolt of customary fall coolness will further foster what is being seen as an inordinately showy foliage display for our area, at…