Waiting for Seasons in Vancouver

We're all waiting for autumn to arrive. Usually this season happens after summer. However, this is the year Vancouver almost didn't have summer. The year without summer. Well, almost . Summer in Vancouver arrived August 20th, the day after I left on vacation to a hot, sunny place. A summer place. Cue the theme.



Each year summer bakes Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba. Long. Hot. Sunny skies. Beautiful! And points east. They do summer too.

The rest of Canada also does winter. Vancouver doesn't do winter. Long. Cold. Sunny skies. Beautiful! You have to experience it to understand. Once is enough.

The Inuit are said to have over 100 words for snow. Vancouverites have almost as many for rain. Is it raining now? Yes, it's sprinkling. Nothing to do with the lawn. Drizzle, downpour, deluge. At least you don't have to shovel it.

The English language has quite a few words for snow too. Most of them are spelled with the letters found on the top row of the keyboard.

Snow wreaks havoc on the roads in Vancouver. Everyone fears when the tlapripta falls, creating tlayopi, until eventually maxtla covers the entire city. Everyone here knows Vancouver doesn't get tla.

Reserve me a spot under the palm tree this winter. Aloha!
Photo courtesy of 4nitsirk under Creative Commons