How you can tell it's fall in L.A., according to a guy from Vermont

When I arrived in Southern California from Vermont more than a quarter of a century ago, I made the rookie mistake of thinking Los Angeles was a seasonless city, an endless summer and a perpetual day at the beach. After all, Vermont does its seasonal transitions, especially the summer-to-fall one, like nobody's business. Autumn in the Northeast cannot be ignored. It arrives with all the subtlety of Carrot Top on a fire engine, the trees... + full article