I'll submit for your viewing just five shots from a not particularly exciting, overcast, and gloomy Wednesday (2/20). In other words, just another fall/winter/spring/summer day up here in my corner of the PNW.
For those of you who are not from this area, let me review the four seasons of the Puget Sound Region of the PNW:
Labor Day --> Thanksgiving = Autumn
Thanksgiving --> New Year's Day = Holiday season
January 2nd --> Junuary 30th = Rainy season
Summer = Four randomly scattered days between Junuary 30th and Labor Day.
Without a calendar, the only way you can tell the seasons is to look at a tree.
Yellow/red leaves = Autumn
No leaves = Holiday or Rainy season.
Light green leaves = Late Rainy season.
Dark green leaves = one of our four days of summer.
Why do I remain up here? Because in my 60+ years, it is the only place I have lived where I can enjoy the summer. I have lived in the following hot and/or humid places (in order) in the USA:
Sikeston, Missouri (pronounced
Misery)
Lewiston, Idaho
Sacramento, California
Phoenix, Arizona
Chicagoland, IL
In all fairness I should say that the Chicago area was not bad, as during Labor Day weekend the weather switched like clockwork from summer to Autumn as though some one had flipped a switch. I enjoyed my four years living in the Chicago suburb of Naperville,IL. If forced to live in a major US megapolis, I would choose the Chicago area although the Seattle area (contrary to the views of our local politicians) is rapidly heading down that road.