another thing i was just thinkin'

[fflo]

'round about this time of year in b-more i might get the uh-oh kind of feeling about summer coming. the one that remembers that the coming time of year includes the "to be gotten through" kind of months, the most onerous of weather, the dripping with the moisture in the air kind of atmosphere, mixed with heat rising off all the pavement, and the city smells (the exhaust-garbage bouquet is at its worst in summer). now that i'm a michigoose, i get the up-jumping uh-oh in october or so, and it's about another season that can wear on one in its persistent outdoor discomfort, inconvenience, generally-less-pleasant-ness.

just goes to show you how it's relative---and here i mean not that it's one season one place, and the other in the other: i mean that it's all attitude. you know, this same taste of warmth, if i were thinking of the immediate future as potentially unpleasantly excessively something, has a bite that it doesn't, if i don't. and vice versa about the taste of winter in the air. (or would that be "ditto"?)

anyway, the point is, it's all attitude. and we do have a lot of influence on our own attitudes. degree of caffeine intoxication notwithstanding.

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[sprig5.livejournal.com]

hey, y'all. one thing that could make me look forward to winter would be getting to use snowshoes again. i used them a few years ago in the mountains of WV, and they really made walking in the snow (ON the snow) fun. But I haven't been able to rationalize getting some here in Maryland, where we might have 2 days a year to use them. Could use them as a reason to drive to mountains, or go to Ann Arbor though, I guess.

Summer. I like it for giving you the illusion that an afternoon can last forever-- the way you used to feel (for better or worse) when you were a kid, you know?

But as a budding perennialist, I love spring because you see something different in some different state of bloom everytime you look outside.

Here is my concern now (I am sarap_grow):
http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fruit/msg0415213511375.html

[fflo.livejournal.com]

very cool, looking into your pear tree. (i love pears.) (and not just cuz i'm shaped like one.)

there were snowshoes hanging on the sides of buildings at the cabins in SD my family vacationed in. seemed quite Romantic-al to me. never have walked with 'em, though. i did read somewhere recently that new snowshoes have major technical advancements over the old/trad ones.

you're welcome to come visit me any time, of course. you can look at what's coming up in my yard. or walk in snowshoes, as the case may be.