Beautiful! I haven't seen a flower out of doors in months, and won't for several months to come. I'm in Ottawa, in Eastern Ontario, right in the middle of a snow belt - we usually have many feet of snow on the ground right from December to April. This year there has been less snow than usual, but the ground is still covered by a few inches everywhere and it will probably be there for some time.
Nobody would ever think of comparing us to the British Isles. The temperature today is waaay below zero.
I used to live in the Lake Erie lake effect snow belt (in northern Ohio). You have my sympathies. Every year I lived in the Midwest, about this time of year, was when I re-memorized the location of every conservatory/greenhouse/etc. within a hundred mile radius. I grew up in a climate (mostly in California) where it's green in the wintertime and brown in the summer, so having things turned topsy-turvy really got to me. It's horrible to live in a place where most of the trees look dead for six months out of the year, which is what deciduous trees look like to me in the wintertime.
I still don't grok climates where it's humid in the summertime and dry in the winter, rather than the other way around, either [g].
I guess a lot of it has to do with what you're used to - I love the look of deciduous trees in winter, all black and leafless. And the contrast of dark pines with white snow. Yes, I like the look of winter, but it's inconvenient... and uncomfortable.
I found the summer dryness of California hard to get used to when I visited. I don't cope well with desert climates, on the whole. I don't think I've ever been there in the winter.
That being said, there's no place I don't like to see, and I generally love the west coast.
Well, we're dry in the summer, and this is decidedly not a desert climate [g]. And I like the look of evergreens against snow, too. We have lots and lots and lots of douglas firs and spruce here. And a few deciduous trees -- maples and alders, mostly.
I like our rainy winters. What most people don't realize is that the rainy Pacific Northwest gets less than an inch of rain a month on average in July, August, and September.
I enjoy visiting climates like yours. But I would be so green-hungry right now if I lived there it wouldn't even be funny.
Our appetite for greenery is well rewarded when spring comes, if we have the patience and stamina to wait that long. That's why people flock to Cuba in February!
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Date: 2007-01-29 07:44 pm (UTC)Nobody would ever think of comparing us to the British Isles. The temperature today is waaay below zero.
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Date: 2007-01-29 11:09 pm (UTC)I still don't grok climates where it's humid in the summertime and dry in the winter, rather than the other way around, either [g].
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Date: 2007-01-30 06:51 pm (UTC)I found the summer dryness of California hard to get used to when I visited. I don't cope well with desert climates, on the whole. I don't think I've ever been there in the winter.
That being said, there's no place I don't like to see, and I generally love the west coast.
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Date: 2007-01-31 06:14 pm (UTC)I like our rainy winters. What most people don't realize is that the rainy Pacific Northwest gets less than an inch of rain a month on average in July, August, and September.
I enjoy visiting climates like yours. But I would be so green-hungry right now if I lived there it wouldn't even be funny.
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Date: 2007-01-31 07:11 pm (UTC)