I picked this image because it is entitled “Cold Spring,” in the hopes that we have a cold spring.

I don’t love summer. Not here, anyway. It’s too hot for the first half, and it’s still too hot but also muggy for the second half. And it lasts forever! It’s really November, usually, before we experience anything I could consider cold. October can be lovely and is quite cool often, with (very) occasional chilly weather, but you can’t count on it. So, when we head in the direction of summer (aka, when winter is over), I get sad. Because I know it’s not too long until I’m stuck in the furnace of the dry desert heat (and muggy monsoon heat).

To save ourselves, we go down to the Sonoran Desert, where it’s like 15 or so degrees (F) hotter, as little as possible in the summer. But, with a kid in college in Tucson, we can’t avoid it.

So, today, I have a sad, mourning yet another winter ending.

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