Don’t look now, but today is the last full day of summer.
Fall arrives a few minutes past 8 p.m. Wednesday, continuing cool, cloudy and damp weather that seemed to mark what some North Olympic Peninsula residents called a “summer without a summer.”
Time marches on, and nature’s palette of fall colors should be right on time by mid-October, according to the National Weather Service.
Many Peninsula residents are enjoying the waning hours of summer.
“What happened to the sun?” one child cried out as a cloud cast its shadow Monday over Erickson Park in Port Angeles.
“You stupid rain cloud!” another child said.
At the Port Angeles Boat Haven, Jim Ball was washing his sailboat, the Just So.
To him, it seemed that summer had already ended.
“Well, it’s been fall for a long time, seems like,” Ball said.
“I did more motorcycling than I did sailing.”
