The last day of August, another summer is winding down, having flown by much too fast. Technically, summer doesn't end for another 3 weeks, when we reach the autumnal equinox, but the sunlight has become more golden, the leaves are looking tired, the days are perceptibly shorter, and the Wyoming hillsides are beginning to show red mountain maple leaves.
When I was a kid, too many moons ago, Labor Day marked the effective end of summer, even though growing up in SoCal the hot weather persisted through October. Wearing stiff new jeans to school in the early September heat was near-torture, but we all did it.
