Meteorological fall arrived Tuesday, as it always does, on September first, but it journeyed here through the month of August. Its progress was daily measured, for weeks, by the ever lengthening tree, house and building shadows, cast by a sun no longer quite as high in the sky. That sun has retreated south from the northern most advance it forayed into in June. The incredibly long days starting with dawn before 5 a.m. are once again a hope we will have to wait to seek out in 2021.

How fast my summer went, and now how far behind us are the long, light filled evenings, with dusk lingering til...