I would melt in that heat...fat girls don't do heat so well. Humidity is even worse, so maybe the lack of humidity would help me tolerate the heat..but I doubt it. I've always wanted to see NM...I've heard it's very pretty!
I don't know what I would do without my four seasons...I love that changing that is so predictable that you can set your life activities around it. I like the rhythm of life that revolves around the awakening of the land in the spring, anticipating growing things in the garden and all the planning that goes into it as well as the labor...it's cleansing after a winter of sitting by the fire. New babies, new leaves and pink flower buds drifting to the ground in a breeze so soft it feels like a baby's kiss.
I like the summer months when things are growing, bees are working and flowers are so bright they make you pause in your day, with a harvest time of beautiful vegetables at the end. What a bounty and a blessing to see colorful jars all in a row! Honeysuckle so heavy on the air you can almost taste it and thunderstorms that vibrate down your spine in a warm tingle....bliss!
Fall is my favorite time of all! Crisp mornings that smell like the first day on Earth, skies so blue and clouds so white it hurts your eyes, and the fruit harvest overflowing. The colder weather rejuvenates me to doing all the chores we do to prepare for winter, the harvest of meat continues and the battening down and tucking in of animal quarters and the home makes me feel like the giving of love.
Then winter...a time of rest, of learning, of fellowship and stillness with the Lord, crisp nights filled with diamonds in a velvet sky, monochromatic landscapes of crisp white and stark trees accented with red birds, and the blessing of a warm house after being out in the cold. Wood smoke on the air, my breath smoking out in front of me, a warm dog jumping around in the soft powder like he's on springs.
I love them all!
