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.

Comments

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I guess you just need a thing that requires the coming season. I used to dread the Michigan summer heat. But now I think, rocket season's a-coming. Even the hot, dead-calm moment in August can fill you with anticipation if it means a thermal's coming through. Seeing as I was born in Kalamazoo, and have never been more than 2 miles away from the Michigan stretch of I-94 for more than three weeks straight in my life, Michigan winter is full of memories for me. I remember the joys of winter, even if I don't partake anymore. When the snow flies, I remember snow days and snow forts (Kazoo got much more snow than A², thanks to the Lake effect) and X-mas greed, and even thought those are things of the past, they keep the sinking feeling away.

And better still, I just learned two new html commands, "sup" for superscript, and "sub" for subscript. Yay!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Is there an abbr for "Peter" that's like "W^m"?

Also, it is definitely over forever between you and the snow, love-and-enjoyment-wise-speaking?

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

No, but ^P_E^T_E^R might come out looking fun.

I hope I'm not through with snow. I just haven't been partaking much in recent years. I still feel like making stuff is a good way to let off steam. I think it might be fun to make a snow-mammoth some time, for instance. But about the only fun I have with the snow these days is watching the shapes that the snow on the hood of my car takes from the wind as I drive, and crunching the ice frozen on the surfaces of puddles. Oh, and smashing icicles is gratifying somehow.

I am done with sliding on slippery patches of sidewalk for fun, though--Woooaaaahhhh!!! KRACK!--at least until I get a job with medical insurance

[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.

Attitude AND Acclimation

[kohkae.livejournal.com]

It is forecast to be 98 here in Fort Worth today. When 93 is okay and 40 is cold, you know the old blood has thinned a little.

Re: Attitude AND Acclimation

[fflo.livejournal.com]

By that logic, I think my blood has thickened!