When it starts, there's still plenty of warmth in the sun and plenty of cricket left, but by the end the cricket's over, the leaves are starting to fall and winter's beckoning.
I'm not sure what Yorkshire director of professional cricket Martyn Moxon's views are, but this September is perhaps the most vital month of his tenure so far.
The campaign started with high hopes.
Emerging youngsters such as Adil Rashid and Tim Bresnan had already found their feet in first team surroundings the previous year and were expected to flourish, and with the class of Jacques Rudolph and the experience of the likes of Anthony McGrath and skipper Darren Gough still around, anything was possible.
Fast forward to today, and frustration is perhaps the overriding feeling.
It all started so well with a convincing win over Hampshire in the opening County Championship fixture followed by successful qualification for the knockout stages of the Friends Provident Trophy, followed in not so flaming June by sailing into the later stages of the Twenty/20.
But then things went awry.
In the space of a few days at the beginning of July, the Tykes went down to a heavy defeat at Essex which ended their FP hopes, and then came the farce at Chester-le-Street which saw Yorkshire thrown out of the Twenty/20.
If there was an effect on the side's four day form, it was an adverse one, because there was little improvement in a dismal run which has seen the White Rose men win just once in the County Championship since that opening game trouncing of Hampshire.
And so we come to the final furlong.
The two knockout competitions are a memory, and though Yorkshire are still in with a decent chance of going up in the Pro40 League with a couple of games left, the fact that the competition will be terminated after next term means even a successful promotion bid will only be cause for muted celebration.
Which leaves the big one.
It is hard to underestimate the importance of Yorkshire retaining their top flight spot, not so much in financial terms but in terms of pure prestige and in ensuring the Tykes are competing against the best.
Aside from basement boys Surrey, just a handful of points separate the other eight sides and it is still theoretically possible that the White Rose men could win the title.
But realistically, survival is the priority, and after the clash with Sussex at Scarborough, there are just two games left, and two real tough cookies at that.
Firstly, the Tykes take to the field at Headingley Carnegie for the final time this summer a week on Wednesday when they take on title contenders Somerset, then a week later, it is down to the south coast for the return clash against champions Sussex.
Whatever happens, it will be a nailbiter of a finish, and perhaps time to put aside any views on the rights and wrongs of the short term policy of bringing overseas men in, the Kolpak recruiting, or whether more kids should have been blooded, and get behind the team in Gough's swansong both as a player and skipper.
Let's just hope the weather holds and matters are settled on the field and not by the vagaries of the points system.