The weather changes all the time here; my favorite time is just ending, when it's cooler, when it's all about heavy, winter-weight linen kurtas, trousers, wraps, and winter bedding; windows closed over at night, and crisp, cold sleeping weather. Now, the sun has become warmer, all my cottons have been dragged out of the cupboard, and my favorite white, silky mosquito net drapes my bed and rustles gently under the stir of the ceiling fans. It is the tail end of winter, and we're in the warm weather. A bat of the eyelid and the world has turned a little, taking it closer to the sun...
I love the seasons in India; especially those here in tropical West Bengal. We have six seasons: winter in Dec/Jan; spring in Feb/March; summer in April/May, when the burning heat is at its peak and Bengal's tropical dampness is furthest away; rainy season in June/July, when the fat, welcome drops of rain dissipate the remnants of the last two months and take the temperature down a few degrees; monsoon season August/September, when the floods can come if they choose; and my favorite, the quick turn of summer's last into the crisp and beautiful months of October/November, when autumn lands and spreads it's loving arms...
The best thing is, if you don't like the weather you only have to wait 2 months, and it will change---like clockwork.
It never fails...
nothing like a bit of variety...and you had me at the title...
ReplyDeleteLovely, your description of the seasons!
ReplyDeleteI came downstairs this morning to the smell of Spring...I bought some tightly closed daffodils on Tuesday, and now they have opened their smiling faces and offered up their wonderful perfumed greeting! It reached me half way down the stairs, before I was anywhere near my kitchen, where they are parading on my table...
ReplyDeleteSadly, they won't last two months, though. They are my once a year treat to welcome lighter mornings. Mostly, I like daffodils to be outside, still growing...
Here in Chennai, we have only two seasons. Scorchingly HOT and HOT. We are right now enjoying the latter, but well... its the beginning of the end of this season!!
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:-) ready for the change here ... it's close
ReplyDeleteThe wonderful thing about England is that if you don't like the weather you only have to wait five minutes before experiencing other weather that you don't like.
ReplyDeleteLove what you've just said so well! XO, Cynthia
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