Lions and Lambs
I'm not quite sure how March arrived so quickly, but here it is.
There's a winter storm warning in effect in New York, while it was nearly 80 degrees here in Los Angeles today. And that, ladies and gentlemen, sums up the great divide between the two cities. (Well, I'm using the term "cities" loosely. Los Angeles is a major metropolitan area, but it's not nearly urban enough to be a city—in my book, at least.)
Nearly everyone I meet here touts the weather as LA's greatest attribute.
Maybe it is for most people.
But honestly, it's just not my issue.
I like the seasons—plural. The traditional ones, I mean. Not the LA versions, which I understand are distinct from one another (well, sort of) but truly lack the majesty of their East Coast cousins.
I miss winter. And I love a good snowstorm, even if I have to shovel the walk and wear a million layers and wrap a scarf around my face sometimes.
Do I enjoy the novelty of wearing shorts on March 1 (or February 1 or January 1 or December 1)? Sure. Who wouldn't?
But isn't that what vacations are for?
There's a winter storm warning in effect in New York, while it was nearly 80 degrees here in Los Angeles today. And that, ladies and gentlemen, sums up the great divide between the two cities. (Well, I'm using the term "cities" loosely. Los Angeles is a major metropolitan area, but it's not nearly urban enough to be a city—in my book, at least.)
Nearly everyone I meet here touts the weather as LA's greatest attribute.
Maybe it is for most people.
But honestly, it's just not my issue.
I like the seasons—plural. The traditional ones, I mean. Not the LA versions, which I understand are distinct from one another (well, sort of) but truly lack the majesty of their East Coast cousins.
I miss winter. And I love a good snowstorm, even if I have to shovel the walk and wear a million layers and wrap a scarf around my face sometimes.
Do I enjoy the novelty of wearing shorts on March 1 (or February 1 or January 1 or December 1)? Sure. Who wouldn't?
But isn't that what vacations are for?
posted by Jody Rosen Knower at 9:43 PM
1 Comments:
As someone who lives in the snowbound land of Boston, I would point out that you can vacation to the snow and come back to the warmth of LA. A far better proposition than what we did -- vacation to the warmth for a week and then come back to sub 30 degree weather and now nearly a foot of snow. Sigh. You can have four distinct seasons. I HATE WINTER.
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