I have affection for all the seasons. The pulchritude of life.

What is your favorite season of year? Why?

I don’t have a favorite season because each one is special and great in its own right. Each one has its own ambience, smell, feel and memorable moments.

The quiet of a snow fall, the perfect combination of a sun’s warmth and the light breeze on a spring day, the sound of the waves smashing into each other in the summer and the fragrance of the falling autumn leaves are just a few of the highlights of the four seasons.

Each season can call up memories of being one in sync with each season’s complexity of life.

The recollection of walking through the moist slushy snow, the icy chill numbing your face as the warm vapor expels from your breath. The holiday lights and songs that encompass the yuletide season. Instantly feeling the cold when walking out from a warm place and the warmth on your face when going inside on a cold day.

Sitting on the ground in a park or yard and watching the bees jump from flower to flower while smelling all the plants and flowers coming to life. All the new bouquets of colors blooming after a few months of mostly, black, grey and white.

During the long days of summer, drinking from a garden hose on a hot day and tasting the warm temperature of the water changing smoothly to a cooler taste. The smell of freshly cut grass and the aroma of charcoal being lit and prepared for the summer cookouts. Yellows, greens and blues creating the scope of a summer day.

The swiftly changing tones of the shedding leaves from greens to beautiful hues of red, orange, and yellow and they cascaded down and blanket the ground. Picking a special pumpkin and carving it to put in a window for Halloween and later baking the seeds in the oven for a delicious treat. The smell of nutmeg and cinnamon cooking in the pies they encompass, baking in an oven for Thanksgiving Day.

Why must we categorize things in what is your favorite? Each has a place in the time of a memory along with a space in a heart. Each month of the season is unique in itself during a seasonal life. These four tapestries represent diversity and the cycle of life and are beautiful in their own distinctive moment in time.

I’ll sum it all up by committing to this, they’re all my favorite.

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