These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things....
Finally, some weather worthy of the holiday season! I put in 15 years in Southern California and while the pleasant weather made most days easy to go through, there were just some times that the sun did not fit.
Let's start with Halloween. The reason for Halloween was a Pagan celebration for the end of the harvest, the death of the season, so to speak, and being brought up in upstate N.Y. with the Legend Of Sleepy Hollow and the like, Halloween always had a special feel. A chill in the air, bare or almost bare trees, and that feeling of nature preparing to die until the spring. It was always special to me, and California, just did not get it done for me.
The next would be Christmas. Though I am not religious at all, I love the tradition of Christmas. Usually cold, usually snow on the ground. Hunting for a tree in the cold, sitting around the fire, and the smells of Evergreen. This was the time of year I did not ever get used to in California. Sweating to load the tree onto your truck. Dropping the convertible top to fit large gifts. It just never felt right. Well, look what we got the other day here in Washington! This is a view from my front porch.
Stay tuned for part II tomorrow...I must go home now.
Let's start with Halloween. The reason for Halloween was a Pagan celebration for the end of the harvest, the death of the season, so to speak, and being brought up in upstate N.Y. with the Legend Of Sleepy Hollow and the like, Halloween always had a special feel. A chill in the air, bare or almost bare trees, and that feeling of nature preparing to die until the spring. It was always special to me, and California, just did not get it done for me.
The next would be Christmas. Though I am not religious at all, I love the tradition of Christmas. Usually cold, usually snow on the ground. Hunting for a tree in the cold, sitting around the fire, and the smells of Evergreen. This was the time of year I did not ever get used to in California. Sweating to load the tree onto your truck. Dropping the convertible top to fit large gifts. It just never felt right. Well, look what we got the other day here in Washington! This is a view from my front porch.
Stay tuned for part II tomorrow...I must go home now.
posted by AndyP (Seattle, WA) at 4:48 PM
1 Comments:
You should be working at work, not blogging.....very naughty;~) Also, I carried your son for nine months, ruined my figure, vomited, had swollen ankles, went to work everyday until the day before he was born and raise him, I should be your first favorite thing, if it wasn't for me Alex would not exist.....Don't forget it.
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