It's cloudy and foggy today in sunny California. I love it. It reminds me of Paris. Even though October in Paris turns out to be sunny and balmy. Or at least for the last three years.
I was positively irritated by the perfect weather when I was in Paris. I hadn't come all the way to Paris in search of wet cobblestones, preparing to wear scarves and gloves, and breathe in crisp air, to find...you know, friggin' blue skies.
I never spoke this aloud while I was there. I knew mine would be an unpopular opinion. Indeed, an unthinkable opinion. Especially as I was going to be spending my upcoming winter, suffering back in Southern California, where the sun shines...almost...every day, leaving the Parisians to endure winter as best as they could.
Winter is not a good thing. I know. I have lived where winter is winter, and no. Aside for the few pretty days of fresh snowfall, winter is long, dreary and bitter cold. To hell with winter. Absolutely.
Even so, as summer approacheth, for everyone in the Northern hemisphere, it feels nice today, here in Newport Beach, CA, to have a bit of grey going on out there, which allows me a chance to post a wet cobblestone picture...just to remind me of one of my favorite things in Paris.
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