Where Bloggers Live: My Favorite Season

Welcome back to the monthly edition of Where Bloggers Live! I am lucky to have joined a terrific group of bloggers who give a peek into the places and spaces where they spend their time.

Today's topic is My Favorite Season...and it's interesting because this season has changed since moving to Minnesota, but in a predictable way. My favorite season seems to always be whatever season follows the longest, most difficult season wherever I live. Living in the southern US between the ages of 6 to about 38, my favorite season was always fall because it marked the end of the long, hot, humid summer. Living in Minnesota, my favorite season is spring because it marks the end of the long, cold, dry winter.

This year we are a bit lucky because even though it's not even mid-April yet, we've already started to have some true spring weather with high temperatures into the 50s and 60s F. I have even been wearing skirts without tights this week in my apartment, which normally doesn't happen until late April or early May. On Thursday afternoon, water fell from the sky in liquid form!

Of course with spring comes "seasonal" allergies. I have allergies year-round, but it's definitely worse in spring than during the winter. And this week I have a cold as well...my first one since before the pandemic. I knew it had to happen eventually, and fortunately it's a relatively mild one so far, but it's a bummer nevertheless.

Because I'm not feeling well and am already running out of steam, today's post is relying on a picture to be worth a thousand words as I share a few photos from a previous early May visit to Afton State Park in Hastings, MN (a less than 30 minute drive from us), showing some of the verdant green foliage and colorful flowering plants of spring.

Thanks for joining me in sharing a brief discussion and photos of my favorite season.

Next month's topic is What I Do When I'm Bored...and since I pretty much never feel bored, I will be sharing the things I do that prevent boredom from descending.

In the meantime, visit these lovely bloggers as they share their favorite season:

Bettye at Fashion Schlub

Daenel at Living Outside the Stacks

Em at Dust and Doghair

Iris at Iris’ Original Ramblings

Jodie at Jodie’s Touch of Style

Leslie at Once Upon a Time & Happily Ever After

What is your favorite season? Do you share my penchant for most appreciating the season that follows your area's longest and/or most challenging season?

Blogs I link up with are listed here.