unseasonable seasons

We are still waiting for the first frost here on the NCR.  It was an unseasonable 55 degrees at 5:30 this morning and we will probably get to 70 today.  Unfortunately, this warmth is accompanied by intermittent wiper weather.  This nearly constant light rain is not helping maturity of crop which would ordinarily be croaked by frost anyway.  There are plenty of green tomatoes on the eerily green vines, but they can't seem to color up.  Meanwhile, the spinach is getting pale under the constant cloud cover.  The sun is threatening to come out today for a few minutes and that will help, but we are in for more rain tonight and tomorrow.  I can't help but think this is a harbinger of seasons to come.  Home grown tomatoes and lettuce for Thanksgiving day salads and spinach and cauliflower on Christmas.  That doesn't seem too fantastic anymore.