These black walnuts at the Ranch (Breeze office) are proof that summer is over and autumn is here.

The heavy fall of walnuts is, according to knowledge of our ancestors, a sign of an unusually cold winter to come.

Black woolybear caterpillars are also a sign of brutal weather to come. All woolybears at the Ranch this year have been solid black. Here’s hoping that great-great-great-grandpaw Rob is wrong.