Falling into winter

Welcome to fall and the dreaded autumnal equinox. At least when we hit the winter solstice, the days start getting longer. We have reached the point in the year when, well, allow me to illustrate:

Very soon summery scenes like this:




















Will start to look more like this:
















After that, it is only a matter of time before those of us silly enough to live in snow-land end up doing this:




















Which usually drives me to escape here, at least for a short break:




















The end.