What is your favorite season?
Anyone whose known me for about five minutes knows mine isn't winter.
There's a quiet comfort in eating toast and tea, enfolding oneself in soft comforting scarves, knitting wools tweed and hand spun, wearing slippers in the afternoon, stirring soup, listening to Elizabeth Cotten, baking late into the deep indigo night, tying bows and giving little surprises, spending more time than you'll admit reading, and looking hard at a landscape rendered monochrome.
My opinion is that autumn braces us, clears our sight like wasabi, the leaves alight and sing a last hurrah, rain comes to take the last of the hangers-on so that in spring a faint mist of nascent greens can whisper in and summer's heat softens, propelling humans into bodies of water, relaxing even the most hurried.
Thank you for keeping up with the meanderings of eggbeater. Even in the season of family obligations and hibernation. shuna fish lydon
Try winter in Rhode Island! BRRR! 26 degrees this morning; my latte never tasted so good. I shoveled 8" of wet heavy snow two weeks ago and this is only the beginning. This is why it's good to have parents retired in Florida to visit! :)
Posted by: jennifer | 20 December 2005 at 08:33 AM
Last thursday my bus couldn't make it down an icy hill, so I got out and walked the slippery sidewalks the rest of the way home from work...2 hours, inching along.(Normally, it would be 10 minutes on the bus, or 30 walking on ordinary sidewalks.) The bus never passed me up!
The older I get, the more I understand why people move to more temperate climes. But it does make you appreciate coming in from the cold. Home never looks better than in weather like this.Especially when you are met at the door by two warm cats.
Posted by: lindy | 20 December 2005 at 10:57 AM
I like the coziness of the season, but not the dry skin or the static.
Posted by: beastmomma | 20 December 2005 at 01:15 PM
hello shuna! we have two seasons here: typhoon season, and not typhoon season. all in all, i'd rather be in paris.
i hope you are having a lovely time, whatever your season :)
Posted by: santos. | 21 December 2005 at 01:08 AM