LJ Idol: Morgenmuffel

[ryl]

The end of winter is a sad time for me. I love the cold, the frost in the morning, the promise of a snowy day. But the Earth turns, the seasons change, and winter warms into spring. I always see the first really warm day of the year as a personal insult, especially when the winter was as short as this year's was. We had a 70-degree day at Christmas

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[engarian]

I love Spring, but then I live considerably more north than you, and your barren slopes and leaf-tossed garden is still my snowbound hills and sub-freezing temperatures. But you give me hope that this too will end and Spring will come again.

- Erulisse (one L)

[ryl]

Spring usually comes and goes about three or four times here until it decides to stick around.

[dadi]

ah we are so totally opposite... I cherish and await every degree more on the thermometre!

[ryl]

Heat wears me out. Even more now that I'm back on the Happy Pills and SSRI-induced heat exhaustion exists.

I do like the flowers, though.

[dadi]

Ah, my psych meds make me sweat too and in addition, I still have menopausal sweats but no matter - sun! Light! Yay!

[d0gs]

As much as I also enjoy summer, I would honestly love to live somewhere where it snows every day of the year!

[ryl]

That sounds like a wonderful place!

[beautyofgrey]

This is a great entry - way to go on getting all of that done! It reminds me of all I need to do to get the yard cleaned up. When we moved here I downloaded several PlantId apps and a treeID app and it's pretty much all I do with my time when I'm outside with the dog.... I love learning what is growing in my space and I am trying to learn how to quash out the invasives (a constant fight against English ivy) and encourage the natives (I have a healthy moss and mushroom population and lots of crippled cranefly orchids). I bet your area is beautiful!

[ryl]

When I first moved in with Irish Storyteller and Seasonal I spent a summer ripping English Ivy off the trees in the back yard. I have Feelings about that particular plant.

The app I'm using is Picture This. It's worth the money.

And, as expected, the bottom dropped out weather-wise today. Sleet this morning. Irish Storyteller is worried about the tulips because they came up too soon.

[tonithegreat]

Here comes the cold for you! It's going to freeze all the way down here tonight. Me, I love heat and summer, but I really enjoyed your writing here.

[ryl]

Yeah, I woke up to sleet and high winds this morning. You didn't fool me, Fool's Spring!