Please tell us about your weather.

by compound complex 34 Replies latest social current

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  compound complex

  literal or figurative . . .

  Rain, at long last, has penetrated into the interior of our land and my soul.

  The burning sun of a protracted summer had effectively removed my resolve to get necessary things done. Now, with the advent of cooler temperatures, my getting to those neglected chores should be a snap.

  It isn’t.

  An unforeseen sadness has crept gradually, insidiously into the fabric of my life. Loose threads of a garment hanging loosely about my diminishing frame are unraveling more quickly than I can stitch them back together into whole cloth. Strange, this annual change in weather that I anticipate so eagerly yet with always the same result upon my disposition.

  I love the cool, the wet, the dark. Nonetheless, I am saddened at the departure of sun and blue sky.
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  dazed but not confused

  I love the cool, the wet, the dark. Nonetheless, I am saddened at the departure of sun and blue sky.

  I agree with this. My wife and I moved from the Seattle region to Colorado. While I enjoyed the cool, rainy, darker days, it does start to weigh on you and if your prone to depression, it sucks. I love Colorado. Mostly sunny beautiful days. I don't really miss Washington. We have had a few inches of snow along the front range this season so far but then a few days latter the sun shines and the big blue sky emerges. We need balance.
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  rebel8

  6 months of this, except with a lot more snow, icy sidewalks/roads and a grayer sky. Probably colder too--those people aren't wearing long coats.

  

  Followed by frozen mud season (a.k.a. Spring), then humid/rainy Summer, then a nice but very brief Fall.

  By now you can probably tell how I feel about the climate here.
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  compound complex

  Thank you, dazed, for your post.

  Yes, balance is the key to almost everything.

  Wishing you and yours a sunny day.

  CoCo du Soleil
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  compound complex

  We appreciate your reply, rebel.

  I have a good idea what you're describing though the image blanked out. I used to live there myself!

  CoCo de la Neige
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  tenyearsafter

  Best of both worlds in Colorado...cool and crisp with sunny skies!
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  compound complex

  Tenyears:

  Colorado seems the place to be!

  Thanks much for posting.

  CoCo des Cieux Bleus
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  compound complex

  In the shadow of a rain-drenched Miner's Point rise numerous but widely separated billows of smoke that spiral upward from burning slash.

  Property owners - in anticipation of cooler, wetter days - labored during record-high summer heat to clear their acreage of fire ladders and manzanita. This arduous but necessary labor is done annually in order to make land fire safe.

  Now, bonfires, planned according to regulations still in effect, burn with cautious abandon. A month earlier, an over-warm Indian Summer would have readily kicked such flames into an overblown frenzy, provoking a mountainside conflagration and terror.
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  Hortensia

  I had 18 years of unremitting sunshine in the Sonora desert. That's enough. Now I'm up here in the State of Jefferson, loving the rain, the snow and all the rest of it. It's 35 degrees F right now, raining. I know it's snowing uphill, when the sun comes out onf Thanksgiving day I know the mountain will be gorgeous. All that sparkling snow against blue sky, sublime.
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  wolfman85

  I'm from Puerto Rico, but now living in Winchendon Massachusetts for 6 years. Right now is 27 degrees F, so some times I miss the warm tropical weather.