It isn't Christmas any more, so it must be ...

[ellarien]

Summer? Or at least spring. The high temperature was in the low 70s today, with blue sky and sunshine. It's probably a fashion faux pas to wear a skirt with pink roses, and a pale green top with leaves embroidered around the neckline, in the first week of January, but this is not New York. This is Tucson, where the fruit trees will be in blossom in a few weeks, and by Memorial Day all but the hardiest cactus flowers will be over and I'll have been at least intermittently in summer dresses for a month.

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[lapswood.livejournal.com]

Sounds a lot nicer then snowy and freezing England.

[ellarien]

I know. I can't say I've missed English winters at all! Spring and summer and autumn I do miss, though.

(Memorial Day falls on the same day as Spring Bank Holiday, though its significance is different. That and Labor Day, which is the weekend after August Bank Holiday, are supposed to bracket the season in which summer clothes -- specifically white -- may be worn, but in Arizona that makes no sense, as we can easily get 100-degree F temperatures for a month before and after.)

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Can we all come and stay with you for a few weeks? :)

I'm fed up of the snow already and we've only had tiny amount compared to the North of England and Scotland.

[ellarien]

:)

There are people, mostly retired, who do just that -- spend the winter months in Arizona and the summers somewhere cooler like Wisconsin or the mountains of New Mexico. Between those "snowbirds" and the university students, Tucson is noticeably more populated at this time of year than in the middle of summer.