Here’s Vin Scully, legendary Dodger announcer and now 85 years old, sharing his “ode to summer“. During which he quotes Bart Giamatti, former commissioner of baseball, talking about the season:

It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings….You count on it, rely on it, to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive.  And then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, October 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone.

P.S. I own this.