I choose.....



I don't like summer,

especially in Adelaide.

I grew up in Tasmania where 28 degrees was a scorcher

and, after 18 years here, I still can't get used to

5 days in a row over 35 degrees

or waking to mornings that are already too hot to go outside.

I don't mind winter but I am not sure I love it.

I love the snuggle-down, comfort-food, movies-and-hot-drinks-on-rainy-days,
no-need-for-sunhats-and-sunscreen-every-day,
electric-blanket-warm-bed-if-someone-remembers-to turn-it-on side of it

but I don't love the get-out-of-bed-to-nippy-air mornings

or the-days-end-early-too-early afternoons

or the get-into-a-cold-bed-and-argue-over-who-forgot-to-turn-the electric-blanket-on

side of things.

I love Spring.

I love Autumn.

Not too hot. Not too cold.

Just right.

But how do I choose my favourite?

One is beautiful as Mother Nature awakens again,

ready to face the next cycle.

The other is stunning as she prepares to sleep

until the sun warms up again.

In Autumn, I know that I can snuggle into all those thick, warm knits

that I have been busy making

whereas in Spring, I know that they are headed for hibernation.

So for now I chose Autumn.

But come Spring...ask me again.

I am nothing if not fickle.

(Pattern: Splash vest by Wendy Bernard.

Yarn: araucania-copihue)