#Writers Quote Wednesday Writing Challenge (#WQWWC) Autumn.
“No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, no fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds — November!” — Thomas Hood
That is how I feel about late fall, winter, and early spring.
To me, it’s nothing but one giant NO!!!!VEMBER.
Most people think of this, when they think of autumn:
From: travelchannel.com
I like one season alone: Summer.
My part of the state, North Florida, usually experiences summer from mid May until late September, but not this year…NOOOOO! It’s going to be 66F tonight and it was only 89F today. That is unseasonably cold!
!!!I hate cold weather!!!
But you knew that.
Not that I want to live in the Sahara desert. Sand fleas are not…well, they’re just…NOT, and I don’t like sand exploring places in or on my body where no grain has gone before (and, possibly, no man, either).
Don’t get me started on the Equator. I’m not a fan of the doldrums. I like the breeze lifting my hair with it as it flows by. On top of that, I’m not a fan of giant bugs, snakes, and boot rot.
Fall foliage is beautiful, I have to admit, but not in most of Florida. The leaves fall off the North Florida trees sometime in December and start to grow back in February. There may be a 2 week window where the color changes on a few of them.
This picture was taken near my home on October 29th last year. Do you see any hint of leaves falling or colors changing?
I’m content to see pictures of the gold/yellow/red/brown hues of the North Eastern USA and upper midwest. I find it hard to enjoy the beauty when people are laughing and pointing at the Floridian wearing 3 sets of scarves, a ski mask, a snowsuit and moon boots.
so.. tell us how you feel.. how you really, really feel….
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LOL!!!!! That’s good. 🙂
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I’m tempted to jibe you for your cold weather phobias, but it would be too easy. The good part–bugs, tourists, sweat running in my eyes on trips to the mailbox are gone, gone, gone. I’m going to northern climes in October, to visit my daughter–experience changing leaves and bonfires.
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Yep. I’m an easy target, especially when I’m making fun of my own phobias. 🙂
Could you take lots of great pictures and share the fall colors with us?
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I will do that.
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out here in California, I start looking for my jacket when the temps dip below 75.
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I feel what you’re saying, but I know not from where you speak.
I lived near SF for a few years and my sister now lives near Palm Springs. There aren’t many states with as diverse a climate as California. In Chico, a few hours north of Sacramento, you could be wearing short sleeves and it was snowing up on the 1000 foot rise in Paradise.
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I’m in the SF South Bay. It can be 100 down here and 60 in SF. I live in the land of the micro climate.
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Going north or south of SF, you never knew what weather you’d run into. “micro climate” is a good way of putting it.
I remember wearing 3 layers of clothing in SF and having to peel them off, wrap them around my waist, and put them on again as the day waned. I don’t know of anywhere else in the country like it.
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Layers – that’s the advice I give people when they ask, “what should I wear?” Layers, the weather changes by the mile and the hour…
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That is the best advice; sweats over shorts and a t-shirt and tanktop, the excesses wrapped around the waist until needed again. 🙂
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We have just hit spring in Melbourne, OZ!
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It’s one thing to learn about it in school, and another to consider that many people in the world have their summer in January and not June. It has to be just as “weird” for y’all to think about winter being January in the northern hemisphere. 🙂
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Living (for now) in the heat of a desert state I long for cooler/cold weather. When it hits 118, I have had enough sun. To the north I go soon! 🙂
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Are you a snowbird? (Living in the south 6 months and north 6 months)
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