Fall's flavors include fennel, parsnips, pumpkins, squash, cranberries, dates, grapes, prunes, apples and pears. Pears, which don't ripen on the tree, are harvested locally in mid-September, and will be a good bet for seasonal flavor through December.
Nothing's bad here, just boring, which is almost worse.
In Mexico, the Day of the Dead, similar to the America's Halloween, is thought to be the time when the ghosts of ancestors return from their graves.