So it's the first day of autumn?

Who are you gonna believe? Scientists or your lyin' eyes?

Does this look like a tree ready for fall?

Not bloody likely.

What's the temperature today here in the greater Tulsa metro?

Ninety (!!!) degrees with 45% humidity, it feels like 93, and expecting 97 before the afternoon is over.

Equinox may be Latin for "equal nights" (which requires further translation: day and night are equal lengths today) but obviously some things are more equal than others. The heat of the day is considerably stronger than the cool of the evening.

So don't talk to us of football, hayrides, jack-o-lanterns and the delicious smoke from burning piles of leaves (that last is mere nostalgia, the damn government won't let us burn leaves anymore).

It's still summer. There is baseball and (NAFTA) corn and the cover is not yet on the pool.