five thousand shades of blue
Wednesday, October 17, 2001
Every day the sunlight stays with us for less and less time. The more common occurrance of fog and rain and gloves at the bus stop serve to remind me that the days of shorts and driving with the windows all the way down + wind blasting through the cab of the truck are almost over. , summing up with cold, damp dreariness and driving home at 5pm in darkness.
I jaunted over to
loobylu and found myself immersed in spring and planting and gardens and vegetable happiness. The weather is warming and the days are getting longer in the southern hemisphere and it always jars me a little bit to think that for an entire half of the planet, December is warm and sunny; the people who live there get to end their calendar year on an up note and not submerged in the depths of winter gloom. It makes me wonder how differently major holiday (i.e. Christmas) celebrations are when celebrated in what's seasonally summer, when families aren't subjected to sunlight-deprivation depression for a couple of months beforehand, given alcohol, and let loose on one another.
Don't get me wrong. I love autumn, the turning of the leaves... but there are times when I crazily wish for the ability to live in Australia from about September to March.
is
this just not enough…?
