December Daily: seasons

[resonant]

sage asks: What's your favorite thing from each season of the year? (Optional: least favorite?)

That's a fun question!

My favorite thing about summer is fresh tomatoes, but I have many least-favorite things about summer, chief among them being heat, humidity, and mosquitoes.

My favorite thing about fall is -- hm. I love so many things about fall. But I think maybe migrating geese, and the sound they make. Or maybe the color of the sky in October? My least favorite thing about fall is knowing winter's coming.

My favorite thing about winter is Christmas, and my least favorite thing about it is cold weather.

My favorite thing about spring is the smell of dirt when it's finally thawed. Fresh asparagus comes in a very close second. I can't think of any least favorite thing about spring, actually, except being braced for hot weather coming.

Comments

[sage]

Oooh, this is lovely! The ground never freezes here, so it's hard to imagine how the thaw would smell, or even what the frozen world would smell like. Here the highs have run from the 20s to the upper 80s just since the beginning of November.

[resonant]

Weather has been crazy here too -- we got into single digits well before Thanksgiving, but it's been above freezing for most of December.