This is why I like living in a temperate zone. My friends in California can gush all they like about having great weather 300 days a year, and the availability of snow if one drives for a couple of hours, but I really like having seasons.
I like the way the sun hits my bedroom windows differently through the year. I like that the big mansions near my apartment, which I could only sort-of glimpse through the trees, are now big and obvious crounched on top of their hills. I like that I have to actually check a weather report and decide what to wear each day.
I can't speak for California, but here in the Southwest, we definitely have seasons--they're different seasons than the temperate ones, but they're distinct and I feel their changes deeply and those changes shape my year. Things like the changing angle of the sun, changes in the dryness of the air and the colors of the mountains and whether there's a chill in the morning or electric lightning over the mountains in the afternoon or heat so fierce it hits my like a physical presence when I step outside--we have seasons here, definitely.
Temperate seasons are lovely, but they're only one kind of seasons and one way of measuring change.
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Date: 2009-01-01 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-01 11:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-01 09:07 pm (UTC)I like the way the sun hits my bedroom windows differently through the year. I like that the big mansions near my apartment, which I could only sort-of glimpse through the trees, are now big and obvious crounched on top of their hills. I like that I have to actually check a weather report and decide what to wear each day.
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Date: 2009-01-01 11:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-01 11:57 pm (UTC)Temperate seasons are lovely, but they're only one kind of seasons and one way of measuring change.
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Date: 2009-01-03 03:50 am (UTC)