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what's your favourite season?

  • Summer

    Votes: 2 22.2%

  • Winter

    Votes: 1 11.1%

  • Spring

    Votes: 4 44.4%

  • Fall

    Votes: 7 77.8%

  • Wet Season

    Votes: 1 11.1%

  • Dry Season

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other?

    Votes: 1 11.1%
  • Total voters
    9
Mendalla said:
Ugh. An eternity of Southern Ontario summer would likely constitute one of the nastier circles of Hell. Had to put the air on yesterday. Not hot (low twenties) but the humidity was above 80%. (and it's only June, imagine the same humidity in July when it will be combined with temps in the 27-30 range). There was condensation on the taps in our bathroom one time when I went in.:eek:

Really, I'm probably best suited to a fairly moderate, mile (but not hot), dry climate with just enough rain to keep things green. Give me an eternity of whatever season that is.
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Eternal summer is, of course, a metaphor referring to a state of mind rather than a season. It is, as T.S. Eliot wrote, "its own season." The above quote by T.S. Eliot is from his first verse of LTTLE GIDDING, which begins with the following line:

Midwinter spring is its own season

and ends with:

Where is the summer, the unimaginable
Zero summer?
 
Inannawhimsey said:
more signs of Summer:

whilst swimming off Rattlesnake Point and trying to get over my newfound fear of heights, being warren buffeted by 1 m swells & admiring (and envying) my brother's fitness to swim through these swells. gusts of up to 50 km. watching 4 boys, during an intense gust (where the wind is blowing so hard it sounds like when a recording mike is fuzzing out in the wind), standing on the edge of a higher cliff, pondering should they jump into the glorious tropical-lapis lazuli Kal lake waters? playing catch with two strange dogs; when their bottle is lost, i dive in and guide them to it, laughing at their little feet paddling under the waves. seeing brown smoke & haze and then smelling it (that evening, a spectacular sunset) -- turns out it was from a Lytton fire -- that's some 300 km away

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yes, you can drink that water
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walking from my brother's place to Middleton mountain, guided by Hermann's suggestions. i clamber onto a well-made trail, then a smaller trail, then a goat trail, down which schoolkids scamper. my heart pounds. i take lots of pictures of the valley & lake & mountains below. i eventually get to Hermann's house and spend a few hours there just talking (and getting treated to some nummy avocado-ham sammiches & a signed copy of one of his books, Non Nobis, Domine: The Biography of the Knight Templar Arminius von Welterod -- @Neo, I think this book might be up your aisle) -- two very hospitable & generous people they are -- their minds & souls are on fire :3 @Tabitha, you should meet them sometime :3

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be patient enough, and one might see a unicorn
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playing bocce (where angels obviously play -- the balls are so brightly coloured) @ Sovereign park, right by the most beautiful lake on Earth...

seeing coveys of the road warrior bird, quail, with their little uns EVERYWHERE -- and yes, they can fly

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two birds enter, 7 birds leave my foot!
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watching my brothers cacti bloom, bright flowers & one of his cacti patches that hasn't bloomed at all since he moved in finally did bloom -- a lone yellow flower

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Thanks, Inna, you are too kind! :X3:
 
Would eternal sunshine cause an arid and touchy domain? Thus the turn to cause shifts in nature ... some dry spots of hummus left to give evidence of creations dark side?

I the political extremes would leave this domain alone would it learn all by itself ... like Medea's offspring ... unseen by polity as blinded by the vale ... a niche in the uplands? The Celt called this Dan's fire pit ... a pipe bomb? Can this scatter thoughts ... unless interpretive?
 
more signs of summer:

two young native canadians wearing haida hats waiting at the crosswalk

an old native canadian selling t-shirts that said on one side "Indian Genocide 1492 --" 100% cotton $20 each

walking up 3 flights of stairs and having the top floor be strangely cool WITHOUT air conditioning

seeing the grass here be browner than in the OK valley

having a cane & bent shuffling old white guy ask me what i am looking at. when i answered i'm just enjoying my walk, sir, he answered with a curt good!
 
more signs of summer in the City of Jewels:
19 degrees, 88% humidity, 1 am

walking out of a talk and seeing for the first time a skyscraper with what looks like 'BS' in bright white

being packed sardinelike (SPAWN HERE OFTEN?) into public transit and talking with a gentleman with a weeping open head wound he said he aquired when he tried to help a friend and the friend attacked him with a police baton & a bat -- the first two women i asked said they didn't have any napkins, thank goodness there was a good samaritan eventually who gave him a whole packet

admiring a woman's hibiscus plant she was carrying around

admiring an afghan young man in lovely white comfy cotton clothes -- he told me 800 people died recently from the heat in Afghanistan, because they don't have enough energy and we should feel lucky here
 
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We could use some signs of summer here. 18 degrees HIGH and raining all day (to the extent that Environment Canada has put out a heavy rainfall warning) and through until at least noon tomorrow. IOW, it may be summer and the end of June, but it feels rather like April at the moment.

The positive side: with all the rain we've had over June, my new trees are getting well watered.
 
More signs of Summer (now that's progressive reality: have a teeny winter and an even shorter Spring):

half-naked men walking around in the daytime

whilst inside, bathed in the cool whispers of a rotating fan

not being worried aboot wearing enough clothing
 
Inannawhimsey said:
More signs of Summer (now that's progressive reality: have a teeny winter and an even shorter Spring):

half-naked men walking around in the daytime

whilst inside, bathed in the cool whispers of a rotating fan

not being worried aboot wearing enough clothing
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People should know when enough is enough ... unlike the Kar dashing's when they are prone to booty failure and varied fallout!
 
The come to think of it even D'rump doesn't know limits of mortal stuff ... oppressed forever into the Shadows ... and he has the BS that there are no clues in the lower populations? There are more plastic brains there ... they could shift ... like the swing of foe cults pendulum! There's something requiring excessive commentary ... have a go at it folks! AD Tuit ... we need a hole to place all that eliminated stuff ...
 
Inannawhimsey said:
More signs of Summer (now that's progressive reality: have a teeny winter and an even shorter Spring):

half-naked men walking around in the daytime

whilst inside, bathed in the cool whispers of a rotating fan

not being worried aboot wearing enough clothing
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Got a bit summery (or at least late spring-y) in London last weekend so I was able to get plenty of outdoor work done. Back to more seasonal weather now. Saturday forecast looks nice but not as warm as last weekend.
 
More signs of Summer:

Browning lawns
Temps of over 100 F this past week
Humidity high enough that sweat doesnt evaporate
Los Angeles-blue endless skies
 
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