Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 30, 2011

Shhh! My tomatoes might hear you! It’s summer, OK?

Come on Ms. Plainwell, I know you’re meeting the kids parents, and you need to look professional and all, but, Jeeze, that skirt is way too long……there’s a difference between demure and dowdy…

I love Caulfield’s combo of genius and obliviousness… It makes him human!

LOL @Lew — actually, here in almost-but-not-quite coastal Northern California, tomato season is just starting.

I have some now, and I’ll have lots in a couple of weeks.

Tomatoes from the hot Central Valley have been available since late May at the farmer’s market, but are winding down.

Mine will ripen on into October and the first big rains — and beyond, but not so tasty.

Sometimes I even get a few barely edible ones for Thanksgiving.

Few freezes around here till late December, though fall rainstorms wreak damage.

So every September, I try to shield my poor plants from the knowledge that some people say it’s Autumn.

The bigger the summer, the harder the fall…(Just made that up!)

Does this skirt make my summer look phat?