I rode my bike to Union Staion this morning… like I always do… for the first leg of my commute to work. I absolutly loved my ride this AM. Aside from the fact that I was rushing (I’m always rushing), I was riding with the sun beating warm, spring, almost summer-like rays on me skin.
For the first time this year, I rolled our early this morning with no scarf, gloves or jacket. All I had on was a t-shirt and jean skirt! Ok, for those of you who live it warm weather you’re saying to yourself, “so what”. But, for those of you who love in the north east portion of the U.S. you may know why I’m so excited.
The DC metro area had one of the worse winters in history. We survived record breaking snow falls and record breaking cold temps. Even worse, we haven’t had many honest to goodness warm days this spring… which is odd for us… because it’s almost JUNE. We’ve had a lot of rain. A LOT of rain. There have been a few warm days here and there and a couple of hot ones, but today was the first day I could walk out at 7:30 AM with no jacket.
I have to admit, I was starting to think this day would never come. I know it’s silly. Summer always comes around. But I honestly started to think, what if we’ve messed up the atmosphere so much, we now won’t even have a summer. I have been cold so long… and I’m so tired of being cold. I seriously just couldn’t trust we’d ever get warm again.
Well, it’s here. Finally! Summer is here. I’ll be complainig about how hot it is soon. The Metro area has a tendency to get very hot and very humid. But, you won’t hear those complaints for a while. I need only rememeber how very cold I’ve been these past five months to put things in perepctive. One thing about living up north… our long an oppressive winters make spring and summer that much more sweet.
See you out on the bike trails because it’s that time of year… FINALLY!
