What's your favorite season and why?

[Mock Turtle]

Crewing on yachts is fun, I did a little bit down in Essex. And sailing on Scottish waters must have been fantastic.
I'm an ex dinghy sailor, mostly Fireball and Laser.

I think I was looking at a Fireball as a first buy and not sure why I chose the MR. Perhaps it was because the local club had quite a few. My memory tends to fade over such. I'd love to have sailed in various places. In fact it was the Ransome books about the Norfolk Broads that got me interested in the first place - plus having done a bit with the Scouts. I tried to get my parents to charter a boat on the Broads but no deal - we lived in London then. We certainly got around a bit in Scotland, and as you mention, a really great place for sailing.

 

[Martin]

I think I was looking at a Fireball as a first buy and not sure why I chose the MR. Perhaps it was because the local club had quite a few. My memory tends to fade over such. I'd love to have sailed in various places. In fact it was the Ransome books about the Norfolk Broads that got me interested in the first place - plus having done a bit with the Scouts. I tried to get my parents to charter a boat on the Broads but no deal - we lived in London then. We certainly got around a bit in Scotland, and as you mention, a really great place for sailing.

The Fireball was exciting in a strong wind with the spinnaker out, we used the trapezes too. Lasers are also exciting, though hard work at times.

 

[halbhh]

What's your favorite season, and why are you so wrong if it's not autumn?

I love everything about autumn: Halloween is a season for me (the entire month of October), I like food on Thanksgiving, I like the first cool touch of autumnal air that brings out hoodie season (or better yet, hoodie-optional season where you can go out in a blouse but keep a hoodie nearby, perfect weather). I like the rustling of leaves and the deciduous trees changing colors and going bare. Though I abhor winter I like the holidays with friends, my chosen family; and autumn is the harbinger of their approach. (Winter is dumb because you get past Christmas and what do you have to look for? Nothing but misery for months).

(Also seeing peoples' responses from other parts of the world will be fascinating here too)

Yah, autumn is great. That pleasant weather, cooler but comfortable, and sometimes Indian Summer too. And evening fires outside, or friends lingering.

Late autumn makes me think of Ecclesiastes --

Remember your origin
in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble come
and the years approach when you will say,
“I find no pleasure in them”—
before the sun and the light
and the moon and the stars grow dark,
and the clouds return after the rain;
when the keepers of the house tremble,
and the strong men stoop,
when the grinders cease because they are few,
and those looking through the windows grow dim;
when the doors to the street are closed
and the sound of grinding fades;
when people rise up at the sound of birds,
but all their songs grow faint;
when people are afraid of heights
and of dangers in the streets;
when the almond tree blossoms
and the grasshopper drags itself along
and desire no longer is stirred.

Then people go to their eternal home
and mourners go about the streets.
Remember him—before the silver cord is severed,
and the golden bowl is broken;
before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,
and the wheel broken at the well,
and the dust returns to the ground it came from,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 12 NIV

 

[Mock Turtle]

The Fireball was exciting in a strong wind with the spinnaker out, we used the trapeze too. Lasers are exciting too, though hard work at times.

I bet. It was probably the appeal of the trapeze that took my interest. Apart from an outing in a chap at work's Enterprise, myself and friend were mostly self-taught. All these modern foiling craft seem a bit precarious. And who would have thought such might happen. I loved watching the foiling catamarans in the America's Cup.

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

What's your favorite season, and why are you so wrong if it's not autumn?

I love everything about autumn: Halloween is a season for me (the entire month of October), I like food on Thanksgiving, I like the first cool touch of autumnal air that brings out hoodie season (or better yet, hoodie-optional season where you can go out in a blouse but keep a hoodie nearby, perfect weather). I like the rustling of leaves and the deciduous trees changing colors and going bare. Though I abhor winter I like the holidays with friends, my chosen family; and autumn is the harbinger of their approach. (Winter is dumb because you get past Christmas and what do you have to look for? Nothing but misery for months).

(Also seeing peoples' responses from other parts of the world will be fascinating here too)

I can't choose I love all seasons. I think each one comes with its own beauty.

I love the orange and brown of autumn. I love the cold and silence on a winter morning when it snowed. I love the blossoming and "living up" of nature in the spring. I love sipping a cocktail by the pool in the summer.

If I had to pick my "favorite day" in terms of weather of the year though......

It would have to be in the winter, with following criteria:
- at least 20cm of fresh snow, frozen lakes and streams
- -5 / -7 °C
- no wind
- blue sky

 

[viole]

What's your favorite season, and why are you so wrong if it's not autumn?

I love everything about autumn: Halloween is a season for me (the entire month of October), I like food on Thanksgiving, I like the first cool touch of autumnal air that brings out hoodie season (or better yet, hoodie-optional season where you can go out in a blouse but keep a hoodie nearby, perfect weather). I like the rustling of leaves and the deciduous trees changing colors and going bare. Though I abhor winter I like the holidays with friends, my chosen family; and autumn is the harbinger of their approach. (Winter is dumb because you get past Christmas and what do you have to look for? Nothing but misery for months).

(Also seeing peoples' responses from other parts of the world will be fascinating here too)

I also love Autumn most. And that is because it kills summer, which I detest, and precedes Winter, which I love maybe more, but has the disadvantage of anticipating Spring, which I also hate. I can say that I was happiest when I was a kid in Kiruna, when the sun did not dawn for a few weeks during the winter solstice.

If I were single, I would buy a house in South New Zealand and move there when spring starts here. And back when spring starts there. So that I do not have to experience springs and summers in my life anymore. Alas, my hubby belongs to the normal ones

Ciao

- viole

 

[crossfire]

Summer, because I'm in the Puget Sound region. (No measurable rain since June 14th.)

 

[Aštra’el]

Autumn, and the Fall Equinox is my favorite holy day.