The last dying hours of late summer

October is being very kind to us here in Switzerland - all this week it has been sunny and 20 degrees, warm enough for short sleeves in the sun. The mornings are chill and hazy, but by afternoon the fog burns off and the mountains stand out in sharp relief against the azure sky. Today a friend and I went to a park near the Uni, spread a blanket on the grass, drank take-out coffee and rolled around in the late summer sun with Small Boy. He pulled up hunks of grass and played with dead leaves, every now and then crawling over to destroy the block towers we made for him. The sun was warm - it could have been August but for the dried leaves crumbling in Small Boy's little hands. A last taste of summer, ever so slightly bittersweet.