when the frost is on the pumpkin

 

I agree with James Whitcomb Riley about fall being a great season:

 

         But the air’s so appetizin’; and the landscape through the haze

        Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days

        Is a pictur’ that no painter has the colorin’ to mock—

       When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the shock.

 

But he wasn't in Lubbock with frost, cold fronts, thunderstorms and 30-40 mile per hour winds!