Spring = Fall

It's my first spring in the Emirates. We are on the same side of the equator and it is officially spring... but this place has the feel of fall.

With temps hitting 100 it's certainly not the cool crisp days of fall in Iowa. It's fall in the sense of watching plants mature and slowly die. The picture above is right in front of my office. Flowers all over this city have overgrown and flow out into the street.

I know I'm reading too much into this but there's also a look on people's faces that bares a resemblance to November in Iowa. The look of "I don't want to go outside for the next couple of months."