One thing that always makes me a bit melancholy this time of year is that the Tampa Bay area doesn’t have a true “fall” season. While we may be experiencing a reprieve from the sweltering summer heat, we aren’t seeing any red, orange or yellow leaves falling from our trees and blanketing the ground with their colorful splendor. However, as October continues to tick on by, the rest of the country will see their precious fall colors dry up into the brown, twiggy remains of an all too brief season. And then it will get very, very cold. Uncomfortably so. And it will probably snow, making everyone “up there” wish they were “down here”. And then I will laugh. Muhahaha. Meanwhile we will be enjoying our shorts, and our flip flops, and the luscious green that still remains on our trees. No, we may not have a fall (or a winter for that matter), or any legitimate reason to wear a cozy sweater, but this is what we do have, all year round: