From summer to fall to summer.  Anyone who knows me also knows that I love the winter.  I enjoy snowboarding and doing backwards doughnuts in ice covered parking lots.  This isn’t why I love winter though.  I simply love it because of the evenings.  Crisp cool air on my skin during an after dinner walk or even wrapping one’s self in a blanket on the couch while playing crib and drinking tea.

The island doesn’t get much of a winter unfortunately.  It is more a long period of rain followed by a week of large patches of black ice followed by another long period of rain.  I don’t mind so much.  My last real winter was the last I spent in Edmonton.  One morning it reached -57 degrees celcius with windchill.  I did not walk or even drive into work that day.  In fact, I didn’t even go into work that day.  I think the majority of the city felt the same as I did about the whole situation.

The closest to winter I’ll get this year is a week spent in the Okanagan before my voyage begins.  So really, I may not even see snow this year.  It is a strange thought that I will be most likely laying on a beach in shorts and a t-shirt Christmas afternoon or ringing in the new year while staving off the heat.  Anyone who wishes to build sand castles with me Christmas eve is more than welcome to join in!

“Summertime and the livin’ is easy”