Talking Meme: Favorite Season!

[mithen]

crooked_halo asked me what my favorite season was! When I was growing up in Maine, or going to graduate school in Minnesota, it was always spring, but now living in Japan it's fall, for pretty much the same reason--it's the point when unbearable weather breaks and you don't quail at the idea of leaving the house again. In the Northern US, spring is when your gut stops clenching up when you walk outdoors, things start to smell nice again, and everything starts to come to life once more. But here in central Japan, winters are pretty mild and summers are the agonizing season, where you step out of the house and are immediately drenched in disgusting sweat, where the air seems to cling to you like soup and the sun is your vicious enemy. Fall is when air starts to feel like air again as opposed to swimming through blood; things become crisp and clean and pleasant again and it's such a relief. I enjoy every day of it!

Comments

[prince0froses]

Mine was always winter back east. I am in love with snow. Here in CA I love very early spring and very late autumn. I hate summer with a passion no matter where I live. I can't bear to be hot

[mithen]

Summers are so humid here, it's unbearable... Spring is nice but it doesn't last long, because it's like two weeks of spring and then we generally slam right into rainy season, which turns everything into a muggy sauna for the rest of the season. Bleh.