Thursday, 19 April 2018

Soon To Be Topless...

...Because it's Spring. Not that you'd really notice, if you went outside, but as of this writing we've had a full month of spring. Which is a controversial thing to say. Seems like there is an OFFICIAL start of spring & a METEOROLOGICAL one as well. How an Official one can differ from a Meteorological one is beyond me - after all, what are the seasons but weather changes? Who looks at & reports the weather but the Meteorological/Weather Bureau? But still, in Canada, it seems that Officially (& illogically) spring starts at the Equinox, instead of the obvious change of seasons.
I say obvious because it's clear to anyone who pokes his head outdoors from time to time that winter is well & truly over by the end of February. The snow is mostly gone, crocuses are above ground & the grass is greening. Indicating a change of seasons - called spring. By the 21st of March, spring is already rampant - daffodils are out & the flowering trees are beautifying streets in temperate climes like coastal BC.
  This was taken in the last week of March in Beacon Hill Park, Victoria.
Doesn't this look like Spring, to you? It certainly does to me!  And yet, officially, it was still Winter!
Ridiculous, say I. And in most countries I would be in accord. It's apparently mostly a North American thing again. At least we can't blame Trump for that!

But this burgeoning season means Sports Car Weather. Yippee! I can get the Z car out, power down the electric roof, bring over the few items that I transfer from car to car & then we're off. Where to, I don't know at present, but we'll wander up & down the Island, stopping at places that randomly take our fancy, toying with the idea of the expense of venturing across to the mainland. We'll see.

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