What is your favorite season? It can be for any reason–weather, your birthday falls in that season, something nice happened to you then…anything.
Mine is fall. I love the way the weather feels. Cool, but not too cold. And also kind of spooky. I always associate horror movies and books with the fall. And I also associate fall with beginnings. Not spring. Maybe because of school?
What about you?
Spring. The air smells so fresh. Baseball begins, and hope hasn’t yet been dashed. Also, four of my seven kids are spring babies.
I say fall as well. November is my favorite month- it fairly sparkles with goodness and light. Winter is cold (relatively) and windy. Spring is nice, but you know that summer is coming, which thought keeps you from enjoying spring to its full potential. Summer is hell, personified. Fall it is.
There is absolutely, positively nothing better than fall in New England.
Summer is definitely my favourite! Heat and sun, early dawns and late sunsets, swimming, bonfires, camping… the list goes on. I have always loved summer. Summer isn’t as fun in a city as it was in my small hometown, but it’s still better than all the other seasons.
Second fave: spring, because it means summer is coming up next. Third fave: fall, because the weather isn’t the worst, but summer is over, so blah. As for winter, well, I don’t have many kind words for winter at all. Especially not here in the Vancouver area where it’s a zillion tons of rain and grey skies all the time.
Fall: football.
Winter. I love snow and skiing and fires in the fireplace and footie jammies and hot cocoa…
Fall. I always looked forward to going back to school. The OP is right that it feels like a beginning.
I was never a summer person. Freckles instead of a tan, too thin to look good in shorts or a bathing suit, not athletic.
Summer is hot and muggy and buggy. Winter is brutal. Spring is okay but for the fact that it’s a prelude to summer, and it’s usually pretty wet.
Fall! Spring is OK, but Fall is the best. At my age I shouldn’t wish my life away - but I still can’t wait for the summer to be over!
Fall.
As a preschool teacher, I agree about the feeling of new beginnings.
Unsurprisingly, I did a huge turnaround with favorite seasons after moving to north Florida (my fave used to be summer).
I swim year round in the heated city pool, and enjoy the beach 12 months a year, but when fall comes, we’re in the season where we get to open our windows and let the fresh air in.
Definitely fall. The crisp air. The slanting sunlight that is a photographer’s wet dream for contrast and shadow. The brilliant colors. All signaling Nature’s huge, sleepy yawn as it beds down for a few months. And my wife’s birthday is in October, so I have to like it.
Winter. I prefer everything about it. The darkness is great because I have trouble sleeping normal hours and it gives me a wider window to get a good night’s(or day’s) sleep in. I enjoy the cold. Nothing better than sitting on the deck with a hot coffee on a below zero day in shorts & a t-shirt to really soak in that hot/cold dichotomy for a few minutes before heading back inside. And there’s virtually no bugs indoor or out. I don’t know why the indoor bugs disappear in the winter but, whatever, it’s just great that they’re gone. And snow & ice are just so pretty. Not that we got any snow this winter. And It’s quieter. None of these damned birds & crickets that haven’t stopped chirping for the last several weeks.
The only season that can even compare is fall. And that’s just because that’s when my peach & plum trees really produce.
Winter! Winter has the following awesome qualities:
-No sunburns
-No bugs
-Beautiful snow
-Hot cocoa
-Scarves
-No bugs
-More darkness (better sleep! pretty stars!)
-No sweltering heat
-Winter sports (sledding and skiing are so much more awesome than running or rock climbing or whatever crap you’re supposed to do in the summer)
-No bugs
-Christmas decorations
-Lots of parties and other holiday related wonderment
-More holiday time off of work than any other time of year
If I had my way my year would be 3 parts winter and 1 part spring to allow for a growing season to prevent starvation. Yay winter!
Fall. The heat of summer melts away into the cold of winter. Perfect temperature/weather down here in Phoenix.
I WISH winter had no bugs. There are no mosquitoes, sure, but in NYC the roaches are not snowbirds. I wish they were.
Summer all the way. There’s no such thing as too hot as far as I’m concerned. Can’t stand the cold. Plus we have Christmas and summer holidays at the same time!
No contest: it’s summer.
I love coming home from work, and just automatically pulling on a pair of cutoffs and a t-shirt, pouring myself something cool to drink, and going out on the back deck to listen to the wood thrushes. I love swimming, bike riding, and outdoor stuff generally.
Spring is second-best because summer’s on the way.
Fall…I always hate to see the long evenings slip away. I hate it when it’s dark by the time I get home from work and change clothes. It used to be my favorite season in school and for a few years after, but that was a long time ago, and it wore off.
Fall. The first week of September, you can just FEEL it in the air. Oh, the heat will sometimes hold on, like a loquatious drunk who wants to tell you one more story. It’ll be hot and muggy, or hot and windy, but I don’t care, because that heat is going to be g-o-n-e within days. … Next is winter, and other than sleety, icy, blizzardy driving conditions, bring it on, I say. I am prepared like the Ant, and I don’t HAVE to go out unless there is an emergency (and many days of winter are quite tolerable for going out)…Spring is nice, I guess, though it goes from mild to blazing hot overnight with little transition…Summer is sheer, insufferable hell. I don’t like ANYTHING about summer, except counting off the days until it’s over.
I don’t like the heat, so definitely winter. Autumn is the runner-up.
Ya just can’t beat the winter constellations for brightness and beauty. (That and here in the greater Phoenix area, winter is the only non-brutal season.)