It's the least wonderful time of the year...

Frankly, I don't know which season I like the least. I know for sure that Spring is my favorite, but the others...

I love to wear dresses and sandals and I to eat the great tasting fruit and fresh vegetables available during summer. It's also lovely to see how luxuriously green everything becomes. However, summer is way too hot and worst of all, humid. Summers were quite different in the South and Southeast of Brazil where I grew up. Way milder, even chilly at times when it rained. I have slowly grown to dread the stuffy hot summers here in the U.S.

I think that winter is positively the hardest season for me. I get really tired of wearing long underwear constantly for over 6 months of the year, (I need to because I just feel so cold all the time) and of my limited winter wardrobe. I don't like to be cold, so I don't ever wear skirts or dresses (my favorite outfit) and wearing pants and boots gets old pretty fast. However, during Winter the days start getting longer and one can feel Spring slowly returning...

I used to enjoy the beautiful colors of Fall, particularly when we lived in Massachusetts (here in Virginia is totally blah in comparison), and one of my favorite drinks is apple cider, but the fact that Fall leads to winter is just so depressing that it makes me dread this otherwise nice season. The weather is gorgeously crisp most days and I wish I could just enjoy it all without feeling sad that Winter is coming. Sigh...

I'm going to mark the Fall Equinox by changing the "Welcome" sign at my door by the Fall themed one, but I don't really welcome cold weather and too-short days. Thankfully I don't suffer from depression (like Dooce) or seasonal affective disorder (like AmFam), but Fall and Winter do make me a bit sad.

It's been over 16 years since I moved to this country and began to experience the cycle of seasons, but I think I'm still not used to the incredible contrast between summer and winter.

I hope I can learn to fully enjoy the cyclical changes... meanwhile, I'm hoping that blogging about this issue will help me a bit.

taken last year in October

Happy Fall, everyone!