Conditions continue to be dry, just 1.43" of rain for the month of October. Fall foliage is past peak, lots of dry leaves that have the potential to catch on fire and, on a windy day, spread easily. High fire risk alerts have been issued these past few weeks. We could use some rain.
We still haven't had a killing frost, at least not in my yard. It dropped into the high 30s last night and a couple of annuals in the window boxes may have gotten nipped yet the wax begonias and even the impatiens keep flowering. It's clear climate conditions have changed. Halloween is an easy day to remember - until the past five or six years, I would have cleared the window boxes and stored them away by now. These past several years the annuals in them are still flowering away (I keep watering them with rain barrel water). It seems to be new normal. 
Not many birds around anymore, and bees seem to have disappeared. There aren't many flowering plants to feed them, what's left in the window boxes probably isn't enough for them. We had several 70° days this week with warm overnight temps. It was easy to hear crickets several nights this week, albeit not like summer.