Location Taken: Deception Pass State Park, Washington
Time Taken: June 2010
I just don’t get why summer is so popular.
I mean, it’s hot, it’s sunny, and the world is alive with life.
In other words, heat stroke, sun burn, and mosquitoes.
Sure, if you’re big into swimming, it can be nice. Well, at least the later parts of it. In June and early July, well, the ocean still has a bit of the chill of winter. And really, you can go swimming any time of the year. You just either need to head towards the equator for warmer waters, go swimming in lakes and indoor pools, or purchase a wet suit that makes any water comfortable.
Maybe it’s because of the long summer vacation my culture gives its school-children. Summer is a time when you’re not faced with long hours of learning, waking up far too early to get to class and staying up far too late finishing homework. Instead, you’re given time to actually play, for once. So perhaps we learn to look forward to the summer early and try to convince ourselves it’s still wonderful once we enter the workforce and lose the guaranteed yearly time of freedom.
Or perhaps it’s the long hours of sunshine, giving us lots of happy vitamin D and all the other hormones that makes most people like being out in the sun. Me, that gets overwhelmed by the allergic reaction, but hey, such is life. Still, summer involves days getting shorter. The solstice, the day with the longest hours of sunshine, is at the end of June, and marks the beginning of summer. The days keep getting hotter because of the time delay involved in heating an atmosphere, but you rarely think of June as the heart of summer enjoyment.
Ah well, I guess I shall just shrug my shoulders in bemusement and go back to hiding from the heat and sunlight. I shall count my love of autumn and winter as another of my backwards tendencies, no more, no less.
Still, if summer is your favorite season, please, please, tell me why?
