Autumn, kind of...

This is about as good as autumn gets around here!   Nowhere near as beautiful as the east-coast autumns of my youth, but the tradeoff is mild evergreen winters.  There are ferns popping up in cracks on the deck, strange new butternut squash starting to grow (even though I just harvested the old ripe ones), new cherry tomatoes still growing (though they'll never ripen), and moss, moss, moss, every kind, everywhere.