This post is way more poetic than anything you've written in a long time. It's obvious that the season there agrees with you. Here in Syracuse, NY, we have rather similar weather patterns , though our rain comes off the Great Lakes. Here, we ALSO don't get the hurricanes, tropical storms, droughts, wildfires, and/or similar deadly weather events. It's pretty nice here, and the housing prices are about the best in the country.
That said, we DO get snow. Hell, we get ALL of the snow. Our winters (until recently - one blessing of climate change) average just over 10 FEET of snow, and are considered the snowiest metropolitan area in the entire country. We can't QUITE view autumn with the same calm demeanor you do... because fall is just the harbinger of the 4-month-winter to come. (Speaking as a delivery-driver, winter here is hellacious.)
I just returned from a week in Bermuda (and between my wife and I, we have traveled to a dozen other countries,) and I also share those wanderlust feelings for "what would be a better place," but I have lived here for 50 years, been an amateur historian of Syracuse since I was 15 (complete with a fairly vast library of rare books), LOVE my house, and really can't imagine moving away/ moving up/ moving on even if I won the lottery. I am apparently a lifer here, and that's OK with me.
Here's a clink of glasses and a "Cheers!" to being where we belong.
"We all fall down out of the sky into the basement, looking for a way back up again,
and we all walk up slowly up the stairs onto the pavement, looking for the place where we belong...
the place where we belong" - "We All Fall Down" by Take That
Hey, you're another Pacific Northwester. I live in Seattle. I like Portland, too, but it's a slightly different vibe from here. I love this time of year, too. I'd like some rain because I'm getting tired of watering the garden.
I know you've seen it a million times, but here it is 1,000,000 + 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4hShMEk1Ew
Yeah, I kinda had that coming, didn’t I?? 😝
This post is way more poetic than anything you've written in a long time. It's obvious that the season there agrees with you. Here in Syracuse, NY, we have rather similar weather patterns , though our rain comes off the Great Lakes. Here, we ALSO don't get the hurricanes, tropical storms, droughts, wildfires, and/or similar deadly weather events. It's pretty nice here, and the housing prices are about the best in the country.
That said, we DO get snow. Hell, we get ALL of the snow. Our winters (until recently - one blessing of climate change) average just over 10 FEET of snow, and are considered the snowiest metropolitan area in the entire country. We can't QUITE view autumn with the same calm demeanor you do... because fall is just the harbinger of the 4-month-winter to come. (Speaking as a delivery-driver, winter here is hellacious.)
I just returned from a week in Bermuda (and between my wife and I, we have traveled to a dozen other countries,) and I also share those wanderlust feelings for "what would be a better place," but I have lived here for 50 years, been an amateur historian of Syracuse since I was 15 (complete with a fairly vast library of rare books), LOVE my house, and really can't imagine moving away/ moving up/ moving on even if I won the lottery. I am apparently a lifer here, and that's OK with me.
Here's a clink of glasses and a "Cheers!" to being where we belong.
"We all fall down out of the sky into the basement, looking for a way back up again,
and we all walk up slowly up the stairs onto the pavement, looking for the place where we belong...
the place where we belong" - "We All Fall Down" by Take That
The good news is that both of us seem to have been dropped where we belong. I’ll drink to that. 😝
Hey, you're another Pacific Northwester. I live in Seattle. I like Portland, too, but it's a slightly different vibe from here. I love this time of year, too. I'd like some rain because I'm getting tired of watering the garden.
Me, too. 😝😝