What's your favorite season?

[Rexmons]

If you had to choose a favorite which would it be and why?

[Rexmons]

I like fall because:

not too hot
not too cold
no allergies or allergy-ridden people
great barbeque / beer drinking weather
football
foliage
no annoying insects like mosquitos

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by Rexmons

I like fall because:

not too hot
not too cold
no allergies or allergy-ridden people
great barbeque / beer drinking weather
football
foliage
no annoying insects like mosquitos

amen, brother!

[Tink]

Fall. Gorgeous colors, a fire in the fireplace, stormy at times. Love the sound of rain on the roof.

[Bullitt]

Winter. Doing anything outside is exercise, skiing, turn down the heat and throw another log on the fire, driving is alot more fun (empty parking lots are the best), and beautiful scenery.

[bluecuracao]

I usually like fall, but not so much this year. Last month it was 90 degrees, and now this month it's 40.

[jinx]

In the past few years I've come to hate winter. I want to move somewhere that doesn't have winter - not Boston Jim.

I live in FL.
FL season is my favorite season.

[binky]

late fall here in the desert is the best, not windy yet, or too hot(115) or too cold(30)

[Clodfobble]

Fall here is irritatingly unpredictable. It alternates between 50 and 85 degrees from October to December, sometimes within a single day. The leaves don't change color, they just eventually freeze on the trees where they are. And at the tail end come the holidays, which--due to extended family--are mostly a pain in the ass.

Spring is much better.

[Chocolatl]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

I live in FL.
FL season is my favorite season.

As another Florida resident, my favorite season is "not hot, fewer hurricanes," which is usually October - May.

But "fall" is probably my favorite time of year. Everyone bunkers down for winter and the holidays, and we always make sure to throw open the windows and enjoy the nice breeze. I also like how the balance tips during fall, from the bright, active energy of summer to a more mellow, introspective feel during winter.

[DanaC]

Autumn is my favourite season. I love the hint of distant bonfires on the wind in the evening, the colours in the woods, the crackle of cold leaves underfoot. I also love the sweet sense of melancholy that seems to come with Autumn and the drawing in of the nights. By winter, the barren landscape becomes treacherous underfoot and the short days and long nights have lost their spice and become inconvenient. Mostly though I think some part of me is still a five year old, for whom the onset of autumn brings the promise of festivals to come.

[JuancoRocks]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Autumn is my favourite season. I love the hint of distant bonfires on the wind in the evening, the colours in the woods, the crackle of cold leaves underfoot. I also love the sweet sense of melancholy that seems to come with Autumn and the drawing in of the nights. By winter, the barren landscape becomes treacherous underfoot and the short days and long nights have lost their spice and become inconvenient. Mostly though I think some part of me is still a five year old, for whom the onset of autumn brings the promise of festivals to come.

Very nice Dana, very poetic.......

The desert has nine months of beautiful weather..Fall, Winter and Spring. They are almost interchangeable temperature-wise, just the difference in the leaves on the trees.(Or not on the trees)

Then comes summer and all the snowbirds that were here sucking up our nice weather during fall and winter head back to their normal homes and the traffic on the streets gets a little better.

As hot as it is, there is no smell quite like the desert after a summer rain.

I guess I like them all equally, for different reasons.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Autumn is my favourite season. I love the hint of distant bonfires on the wind in the evening, the colours in the woods, the crackle of cold leaves underfoot. I also love the sweet sense of melancholy that seems to come with Autumn and the drawing in of the nights... Mostly though I think some part of me is still a five year old, for whom the onset of autumn brings the promise of festivals to come.

Just how I feel.

And to sum it up

A Day in Autumn
It will not always be like this,
The air windless, a few last
Leaves adding their decoration
To the trees’ shoulders, braiding the cuffs
Of the boughs with gold; a bird preening

In the lawn’s mirror. Having looked up
From the day’s chores, pause a minute,
Let the mind take its photograph
Of the bright scene, something to wear
Against the heart in the long cold.

R S Thomas

[TheMercenary]

Winter, I have learned to hate the cold.

Spring, Nice, but down here there are way to many bugs coming out at that time.

Summer, Ahhhhh.... now the season begins. All the toys come out, esp the boat and jet ski. We love it. The sun!

Fall, a close runner up to summer because it lasts so long here. It does not even begin to cool off until around the end of Oct. I am still wearing shorts every day but it has started to dip into the 30's in the night, with highs in the 70's during the day. And on top of that I get to really gin up the outdoor fireplace so it is a close second to Summer for me.