Summer is three months of sunny, carefree days and winter is
an eternity of short, cold, snowy days, but spring and autumn have different
parts to them. It almost seems like a misnomer to refer to spring as one
season, since there is an early, windy, muddy part that is distinct from the
later part when the flowers bloom and the air is soft. Autumn has at least two
stages: there is the October part, when the leaves are beautiful and the night
air is cool, and then there is the less charming November part when there are
no more leaves and everything is bleak. Doesn’t it seem like there should be
two different names for these seasons instead of lumping them all into “autumn”?
Maybe the pretty part could be autumn and the bleak part could be prewinter. I
think about this with my postponed balloon ride; I am hoping to schedule it
during autumn, but if it keeps getting postponed, I might be flying over the
prewinter landscape, and how depressing would that be? Maybe I’d have to wait
for spring, and not postwinter but the real spring that starts in late April.
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