The "Best" time of the year?

[Ishmael]

What is it for you?

Every location has it's own characteristic season and the events that so often come with them, there can be no wrong answer.

For me where I'm at now..........it is now.

The Elk are bugling in the mountains and the Aspen are turning. The Balloon Fiesta starts next week. The Days are merely warm and the nights cool. The days are still long enough, the wind isn't blowing. The monsoons are over and the chile is in.

Ishmael

 

[Aella_]

Aspen my a…s
you guys like windy summers to see those minis blowing and boobs going

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

It's a toss up between now and spring, about the time the forsythias start to bloom.

Winter is too intense survival-wise.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Winters in the NW are the best.

 

[Bidin~Time]

This time of year is nice; the temps are cool but not so cool I need a sweater, and the trees are starting to change color. It's very calming.

The first snows of winter make me happy even when I have to drive on winter roads. By late january, I'm over winter and looking forward to spring. I love watching everything come back to life, and those first warm days. Summer...I do love summer too. The smell of the hay fields; freshly cut and curing in the sun. The gardens, the days at the lake...

I can't pick a favorite, I love them all for different reasons.

 

[Minalick]

Autumn in southern Quebec and northern Vermont.
Spectacular

 

[Aella_]

summer in a resort in Fiji or Bali

 

[Ishmael]

This time of year is nice; the temps are cool but not so cool I need a sweater, and the trees are starting to change color. It's very calming.

The first snows of winter make me happy even when I have to drive on winter roads. By late january, I'm over winter and looking forward to spring. I love watching everything come back to life, and those first warm days. Summer...I do love summer too. The smell of the hay fields; freshly cut and curing in the sun. The gardens, the days at the lake...

I can't pick a favorite, I love them all for different reasons.

Understood.

Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, I've lived in so many different climes that I got to see the difference in the climates and character of the times of year in each. Given unlimited resources I'd probably be in a different clime every month.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

August-September when the rains finally subside for about five or six weeks...



It really gets to you after a while. Makes you want to go walk the mall with the Octogenarians.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Certainly not now. September always feels like the most miserable month of the year for those who remember their school days. Very much the Monday of the year.

Late spring/early summer for me. Temperature warm to hot but not baking, flowers out, and the leaves and grass that impossibly vibrant green. Say, mid-May to late-June. But, as Ishmael implies, that is based on the premiss that I am in southern England, and I know full well that such a season would be wildly different in other parts of the world, where people walk upside down, monopodal, or wander the jungle, ill-shod and innumerate, armed only with curare and nose-bones.

 

[Liar]

This place is amazing in the summer and barely bearable otherwise.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

This place is amazing in the summer and barely bearable otherwise.

This place?

*looks around*

 

[BabblingBrooke]

Winters in the NW are the best.

They're pretty decent here, actually. One has to be smart and prepare for lake effect snow, but when that happens it's gorgeous and makes for fun family days. My favorite season is fall, though.

 

[jezzilee]

I love summer because I can be in the water and lakes and rivers are both so inviting. I also love summer because sun dresses are my preferred style of dress.

I love fall for the glorious colors that Mother Nature paints the leaves and the crisp nights when sweatshirts are required around the fire pit.

I love winter because jack frost creates the most perfect dazzling brilliance in ice. The frost on trees in the morning absolutely glistens! Snowshoeing, and snowmobiling, ice fishing and making snowmen, winter has its perks!

I love spring because when winter finally releases its clutches, spring brings in the beautiful colors that remind me of giving birth. The renewed life of grass and trees alike in various vibrant greens...the daffodils, the tulips, the birds coming back, all make for happiness in nature.

If I had to pick one though, it would be summer. This past summer was a glorious one in Wisconsin. Not to rainy, not too humid, lots of beach time, boat time, lake time, river time, most of that time spent with someone special...especially the river time. Memories I will treasure forever.

 

[Adre]

Humidity dropping, breezes picking up, the next two months should be glorious as long as tropical storm activity remains quiet.

 

[yossi]

I love summer - basking in the heat, being outdoors with as little clothes as you can possibly get away with, sultry, summer nights, lightning bugs. It's a wonderful time.

But I'm also partial to fall, and I've been thoroughly enjoying this September. Most of the tourists cleared out because kids were back in school, the days are staying pleasant, though the wind has started whipping around now. It's all starting to look very harvesty 'round these parts.

Winter can be depressing with the lack of light and the cold. I'm not a huge fan of it.

 

[Saint Peter]

Human are big pussies. The heat of spring shows up and it is too hot. Autumn rears its ugly heat and the furnace gets fired up.

 

[yossi]

Human are big pussies. The heat of spring shows up and it is too hot. Autumn rears its ugly heat and the furnace gets fired up.

I only used my AC once this summer.

 

[Saint Peter]

I only used my AC once this summer.

The dog and cat ran it while you were at work.

 

[doowdniw]

Around here it's the week between summer and winter and the other week between winter and summer. I thought we were going to dip into the 80s this weekend, but no, still in the 90s for at least another week. Low 90s, so doesn't feel too bad.

 

[Not Normal]

I really love mid/late fall. You start wearing long sleeves, the trees get pretty, and the general vibe becomes cozy. I'm considering buying a new light jacket, the only real 'fashion' I car about.