Equinox

Years ago I acted in a couple of episodes of the TV series Peyton Place. The tree-lined town square was filmed on the 20th Century Fox lot, and was a charming looking if incongruously fake anomaly in the surrounding flat Southern California sprawl. One day in early autumn I arrived at the lot to begin filming an episode that was to be aired several weeks later, in winter. The art department had accordingly sprayed white stuff on all the trees' leaves to approximate snow. What did they know? They'd never been east of Azusa.