i don't think that anyone actually lives down here for the summers. the summers last longer than the friggin' calendar says, and they are quite hot. most folks really enjoy the mild winters, beautiful spring time, and the cooling off of the fall.
i really like the fall time. fall is the time of year that you can give your house cooling unit a break. simply raise your windows, and air the house out for a while. the days don't get that hot anymore, and the nights are wonderful. all you need is a ceiling fan, and you sleep like a baby.
fall down here is a lot different than in bama. back home all the leaves on the trees turn a beautiful array of colors. then they turn brown, and fall to the ground exposing the limbs of the trees. down here it is so much different. some of the trees do exactly like the ones in bama does, and most of them keep their leaves attached to almost spring. i think that they know the last minute that they can hold on to them, before the new buds start sprouting.
spring is my favorite time of year. I'm sure that spring is pretty much the same everywhere, but it starts a little earlier here. i love to see the regeneration of life unfold before my eyes. everything that took a long winters nap is awaking once again to a new season. the birds sing more joyful, and there is new babies running around nature.
most winters here are really not that bad. they actually are very mild. most winter all you need is a light coat to fend off the cold. it seems to be the coldest at the crack of dawn, so mornings can be quite cool. the worst think about the winter time is the fact that everything appears to be dead., and that really affect people also. i know that's common around the world, but when you live in a place as beautiful as here is it can weight heavy on you.
they say that this winter is the worst one that we've had in 150 years. i know that it seemed to stay cold forever. yep,...........that's right,...........suck it up yankees,............i'm whining because it was cold for two weeks!! it was below freezing a lot of nights, and we had a stretch of below freezing once for 13 nights in a row. the plants were devastated. i saw plants turn brown that i never have seen before. all the fish in the goldfish pond died. it was depressing to say the least.
looking back that should have been understandable. i saw more death this winter, than I've seen in 16 years. there was a good reason that i went through a very bad state of depression this winter. I've been living here for so long, and most things stay a certain shade of green year round.
yep,...........that's right,..........here i go again!! i just had a revalation,..........again. i seem to do this every time that i write. i think that I'm pretty smart, but I'm not really all that. this winter was very hard on me, and i couldn't figure out why, until i just wrote it. i got so depressed this winter that i actually had my Dr. give me a antidepressant. then when i went back , and complained that the good effect wasn't enough now, he gave me another one. being chemically dependant to begin with, that turned out to be a disaster in the making.
i came off the two drugs cold turkey, because of poverty. if i can stress one thing to anybody on drugs like these is don't just quit abruptly. wing yourself off them.....please!! i thought that i was going to die. i was hearing things, and hallucinating badly, and i stayed sick for about two weeks.
I'm a man that loves life, and seeing so much death around me just sent me over the deep end. i wish that i could have seen it coming, but i didn't realize until right now.
now,..................back to my story!!
apparently, this past winter was just another illusion of confusion. although, the plants were very slow reviving this spring from the freezing cold, something strange happened. this year every plant in my yard that blooms, other than the cactus, have bloomed like crazy. the cactus just did their normal blooming. the rose bushes have bloomed like wildfire. they have put on many times what they usually do.
there are plants in the island in the driveway. I'm not sure what there are, but they look like some kind of Lilly. they never bloom until late summer. then they bloom bunches and bunches. this year they have already started blooming, and you guess it,...............bunches and bunches!!
i think all this freezing cold weather has set up another phenomenon. care to take a wild guess?........I'll give you a clue. it's still 6 days before summer actually starts, and it's 7:00 p.m., the temperature is still 100 degrees!! yep,.............that's right,..................we are going to blister this summer!! today was the hottest day this year so far, and it's still spring. one of my neighbors said yesterday that if this keeps up that he is going to move back home for the summer. i asked where he is from, and he said, Fargo North Dakota.
i just smiled, and said, " can i go?"
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