2/31 Happy Autumn Yay!
- Oct. 2nd, 2013 at 4:56 PM

Snack on an autumn afternoon
It's fall! My ride to work this morning was characterized by a light overcast (the sun a silver coin, the river stainless steel) and no rain. It's cool--one could go as far as to say chilly--and I'm wearing my magenta wool-and-silk scarf for the first for-real time since I finished knitting it last spring.
Me and my scarf
I love October! And in a few minutes I'm leaving the office to join
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Happy Fall!
Me, I'm the opposite: I face the onset of summer heat with great trepidation. I like the cold. Funny, that.
I found England rather dreary (one couldn't rely on the sun's shining even in summer), wet, and chilly. Our winters are not usually severe but it wasn't until I put on too much weight that I stopped feeling cold most of the time! Our summers are only occasionally humid, so when we do have some heat I can revel in it. I still yearn for sunshine and it makes a terrific difference to my mood. I love thunderstorms (we had wonderful ones in Africa) and quite like wind, but I can't stand grey drizzle. I do love snow (we rarely get much), because after several decades it still feels novel and exciting (I blame/credit the Enid Blyton books I read as a child, in which they always had a foot of snow overnight).
If we had sustained periods of humidity I expect I'd welcome cooler weather too.
I read somewhere that where you live when you're about nine years old is the climate and geography that gets impressed on you as "home". There may be some truth to that--my younger brother, who turned nine when we live in Hawaii, has wound up back in a sunny, southern, beachy place, whereas I've ended up back where I started, in Portland.
Do you think you'll ever return to live in Southern Africa? Have you ever been back?
But it would be impossible to live there now. I've just realised that my preference now for living in the countryside, with expansive views, just might have something to do with the space and openness of Africa!
I love the sound of Hawaii, but I can't cope with humidity. I suspect children don't really notice it, since I can't remember it as a child - but also I think where we were it was really only a problem for a couple of months in the rainy season.