Not only is it the season of my birthday, but well.. nothing is better than the fall season in a climate like Ohio's. The weather puts you in a calm mood; it's cold enough to wear a light jacket but you don't have to really go out of your way to bundle up; the city looks the best that it will all year with the leaves falling; then there's halloween. Who agrees?

naaaaa.  Spring is the best time of the year!

 

It's just an absolutely lovely time of the year.

 

The drab colors of winter are disappearing; People are coming out their shells;  rebirth is everywhere and love is in the air.

 

Spring is the shiznit. 

 

 

People are coming out their shells;   rebirth is everywhere and love is in the air.

 

Spring is the shiznit.

 

 

 

Fall is the complete opposite of this but for some reason i prefer it.

I'm the first to vote for Winter? Wow, I can't imagine a better way to spend a day than curled up with my wife under a blanket on the couch with some hot chocolate. I just might open a window for a few minutes and try that this evening.  :wink:

Fall is best, especially October.

Fall is my least favorite season, certainly.

Love fall. Sping is great on paper, but in Ohio a lot of the time it doesn't turn out like it should.

I agree!  I love Fall!  The crisp air, the colors, FOOTBALL, sunny yet cool afternoons.  Spring is too wet, muddy and unpredictable.  Summer is too hot.  Winter is too cold and windy.  Fall is justtttt right. 

I can't believe I'm the only one that voted for summer.  For me, nothing else compares.  Fall is 2nd, but it's distant.  spring is even further down.  And winter, don't get me started.  I hate winter with the heat of 1000 burning suns.

I tried to vote for all of them, but could only pick one.

 

I'd rather be alive in any season, than dead, but if I have to choose just one, I'll take spring. The snow is gone and I don't have to shovel it, the grass doesn't yet need regular mowing, and the leaves don't need raking. The finches battling over the thistle seed in the feeder hanging from my garage are transitioning from their hues of brown to flashy bright yellow.

 

In early spring we get floods in my neighborhood, but there's nothing I can do about those so I just stay out of the way and take pictures.

 

Spring is a rebirth; life is flowing into everything all around, the leaves on the trees are a fresh, vibrant green, and even the thunderstorms are beautiful in a sometimes-scary way, provided they don't get too carried away.

 

Summer nights are next thing to paradise, warm and balmy and marvelous for strolling the neighborhood. A late-summer day when it's not too hot, is bliss.

 

Fall is sunny days and crisp nights and the aroma of apples fresh from the orchard, and cookouts and bonfires with live local-talent music.

 

Winter - well, let me think about that a minute.

OK. I got it. An icy-cold Sunday morning in January, after an overnight snow, with no wind and a crystal-clear, bright-blue sky. Before the going-to-church traffic starts, with almost no ambient sound except the snow squeaking under my boots. A flutter of brilliant red as a cardinal descends to my snow-covered patio to raid the feast I scattered there minutes before.

 

Trying to forget February and March and focus on April and May. April and May. April and May ...

naw. i'm the same. count me in for summer too. and yes fall is a distant number two.

 

don't get me wrong i like stuff in the other seasons, like i still love to go tobagganing at the chalet when i can come home for a visit in the winter, and i like the spring cherry blossom festival here in brooklyn (or in dc), but those are isolated events. they're just not enough to carry whole the winter/spring seasons for me.

 

summer is always warm and wide open, plus i'm off work then.

 

 

I enjoy parts of every season - I just wish they each lasted three months! (meteorologically speaking)

I enjoy parts of every season - I just wish they each lasted three months! (meteorologically speaking)

Even as a lover of our beautiful winters, I'll second that. I truely love our winters, but I swear that f'ing groundhog is going out of his way to find his shaddow every year.

^I'd be fine if winter (no days over 40 degrees and not much sunshine) actually lasted from Nov. 1st to Jan. 31st but nooo, it's gotta linger as long possible some years. Then spring pops up within a week and before you know it, it's tank-top time!

Even as a lover of our beautiful winters, I'll second that. I truely love our winters, but I swear that f'ing groundhog is going out of his way to find his shaddow every year.

 

All the TV lights guarantee that he'll see his shadow. Once again, the liberal media are screwing up Amurika! :whip:

Fall is definately for me (I hate Spring due to allergies).

I'm from Florida originally. Our only two seasons are Summer and Christmas. Basically, we would get quasi-fall weather around the holidays, and never any winter. Some leaves would change, but it was sporadic, and lots of broad leafed trees never dropped at all.

 

Consequently, I really like the fall up here. It's nice and refreshing.

 

However, I hate winter with every fiber of my being. I don't understand how the hell you people handle it up here.

I deal with it by forcing myself to stay and suffer, and resisting the temptation to go someplace nice. If I ever went south during winter, I'd probably want to do it every year.

 

I just concentrate on how nice winter is here, compared with Minnesota.

"I don't understand how the hell you people handle it up here."

 

^ ok, so when are they gonna come up with scientological porter, buddha's delight, eid ale and hebrew hops?

 

what you say, don't hold my breath?  :laugh:

No - do hold your breath. For as loooooong as you possibly can :-D

I deal with it by forcing myself to stay and suffer, and resisting the temptation to go someplace nice. If I ever went south during winter, I'd probably want to do it every year.

 

I just concentrate on how nice winter is here, compared with Minnesota.

Yep, honey...you sure would.  Sometimes you just need to get away from the snow and freezing temps.

 

I'm from Florida originally. Our only two seasons are Summer and Christmas.

LMAO!!

 

I don't understand how the hell you people handle it up here.

We're tough!

Oh, I forgot - yes, it is nice to get away from the cold and gray skies... it was difficult on Christmas Day, not being able to enjoy a Christmas Ale but I had to make do...

 

Fall and spring have cold rain. Nothing worse than that. I´d prefer snow instead, but I´d rather be too hot anyday than to cold. So far, there´s been little rain, so this fall has certainly been enjoyable and there is something about the ambiance I can´t put my finger on.

I like 'em all, but Thanksgiving is completely my favorite holiday, so maybe the nod goes to Fall.

Merry Autumn

 

It's all a farce,—these tales they tell

About the breezes sighing,

And moans astir o'er field and dell,

Because the year is dying.

 

Such principles are most absurd,—

I care not who first taught 'em;

There's nothing known to beast or bird

To make a solemn autumn.

 

In solemn times, when grief holds sway

With countenance distressing,

You'll note the more of black and gray

Will then be used in dressing.

 

Now purple tints are all around;

The sky is blue and mellow;

And e'en the grasses turn the ground

From modest green to yellow.

 

The seed burs all with laughter crack

On featherweed and jimson;

And leaves that should be dressed in black

Are all decked out in crimson.

 

A butterfly goes winging by;

A singing bird comes after;

And Nature, all from earth to sky,

Is bubbling o'er with laughter.

 

The ripples wimple on the rills,

Like sparkling little lasses;

The sunlight runs along the hills,

And laughs among the grasses.

 

The earth is just so full of fun

It really can't contain it;

And streams of mirth so freely run

The heavens seem to rain it.

 

Don't talk to me of solemn days

In autumn's time of splendor,

Because the sun shows fewer rays,

And these grow slant and slender.

 

Why, it's the climax of the year,—

The highest time of living!—

Till naturally its bursting cheer

Just melts into thanksgiving.

 

--- Paul Laurence Dunbar

I deal with it by forcing myself to stay and suffer, and resisting the temptation to go someplace nice. If I ever went south during winter, I'd probably want to do it every year.

 

I just concentrate on how nice winter is here, compared with Minnesota.

 

I lived a couple of years in Minnesota and like the winters there more than winters in Ohio. In Minnesota, it gets cold and stays cold; there's snow on the ground and it stays there. You know its going to be cold and snowy and you get used to it because there are things to do: outdoor ice skating, cross-country skiing, etc. And Minnesota has more of the days you talk about: brilliant blue cloudless skies contrasting with beautiful, fresh-fallen snow crunching beneath your feet. The main problem with Minnesota winter is it lasts too long.

 

In Ohio, winter goes back and forth, in and out -- teasing you with an unseasonably warm, sunny day and then slapping you in the face with sleet and slush. Winter in Ohio is six months of March.

And winter, don't get me started. I hate winter with the heat of 1000 burning suns.

 

That literally made me laugh out loud.

 

I dunno if I really have a favorite. But if someone put a gun to my face and said "Pick a season, only ONE season, or DIIIIIEEE!" I think I'd go with summer, too. I just really love sunshine and going to the beach/park. Winter is by far my least favorite, although I kinda enjoy it up until about right after New Year's. Pretty much immediately afterwards, I'm very much over it and ready for spring.

 

But if someone put a gun to my face and said "Pick a season, only ONE season, or DIIIIIEEE!" I think I'd go with summer, too.

 

See, I'm different. I'd probably lose my composure and start screaming "Saffron! OK?? Saffron..please don't kill me"

 

Then I'd soil my dainties.

 

For the record, I dig the fall too. I enjoy winter, and fall is just a pleasant lead up to it. Plus, I love pumpkin / squash flavored foods. I like the cooler weather. I'm a big guy, and I don't do well in the heat. I'd much rather it be 40 degrees than 90.

Love fall. Sping is great on paper, but in Ohio a lot of the time it doesn't turn out like it should.

 

This is why spring is my least favorite season.  You're ready for winter to be over, but inevitably it is still snowing in late March or early April.  Then it's beautiful out one day but crappy for another week.  I was shocked when the weather was nice this past Memorial Day for the first time in years.

 

So while I love summer, I feel like it signifies the end of something whereas fall reflects the start of something.  Perhaps this is a school oriented thing as opposed to a nature oriented thing.

Love fall. Sping is great on paper, but in Ohio a lot of the time it doesn't turn out like it should.

 

So while I love summer, I feel like it signifies the end of something whereas fall reflects the start of something. Perhaps this is a school oriented thing as opposed to a nature oriented thing.

 

That's funny, that's how I feel about fall vs. summer.  I like fall but to me everything looks like death because everything is dying and falling off the trees, plants are shivering up and everything stops growing.  It quickly becomes too cold to even be outside and be comfortable unless you're majorly bundled up.  Just feels like the impending doom of winter moving in to me.

 

Joni's "Urge For Going" sums up my feelings exactly.

I awoke today and found the frost perched on the town

It hovered in a frozen sky, then it gobbled summer down

When the sun turns traitor cold

and all the trees are shivering in a naked row

I get the urge for going but I never seem to go

 

I get the urge for going

When the meadow grass is turning brown

Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in

 

I had me a man in summertime

He had summer-colored skin

And not another girl in town

My darling's heart could win

But when the leaves fell on the ground, and

Bully winds came around, pushed them face down in the snow

He got the urge for going

And I had to let him go

 

He got the urge for going

When the meadow grass was turning brown

Summertime was falling down and winter was closing in

 

Now the warriors of winter they gave a cold triumphant shout

And all that stays is dying, all that lives is getting out

See the geese in chevron flight flapping and a-racing on before the snow

They've got the urge for going, and they've got the wings so they can go

 

They get the urge for going

When the meadow grass is turning brown

Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in

 

I'll ply the fire with kindling now, I'll pull the blankets up to my chin

I'll lock the vagrant winter out and bolt my wandering in

I'd like to call back summertime and have her stay for just another month or so

But she's got the urge for going and I guess she'll have to go

 

She gets the urge for going when the meadow grass is turning brown

And all her empire's falling down

 

^Man, I love me some Joni Mitchell. First time I ever heard her (with Jaco Pastorious, no less) it was like seeing color for the first time after a lifetime of seeing in black and white.

I LOVE Fall.  Coincidentally my birthday also comes in Fall, and I always ask for Pumpkin Pie instead of a normal birthday cake.  Why you ask, well Thanksgiving is amazing and is my favorite holiday...also in the Fall.  The leaves change, you can leave your windows open at night and get that crisp feeling in your bedsheets.  Oh what a wonderful time of the year.

^but i heard you hate fall in Cleveland ;)

 

 

Is it me or have the last two falls been the best in recent memory? We've had perfect weather since mid to late August up here.

 

i spent about one year in the Dominican Republic and I detested the weather after a while. I really got sick of the same weather, day after day after day.

Is Fall the best season?  Absofreakinlutely!!

a poem by A. E. Housman

 

On the idle hill of summer,

Sleepy with the flow of streams,

Far I hear the steady drummer

Drumming like a noise in dreams.

 

Far and near and low and louder

On the roads of earth go by,

Dear to friends and food for powder,

Soldiers marching, all to die.

 

East and west on fields forgotten

Bleach the bones of comrades slain,

Lovely lads and dead and rotten;

None that go return again.

 

Far the calling bugles hollo,

High the screaming fife replies,

Gay the files of scarlet follow:

Woman bore me, I will rise.

 

:-)

Fall is my favorite season probably because it's packed with the most vacation time and you have the approach of the holiday seasons which are big in my family.  I like the trees changing color, football, and good food usually consumed during the fall.  Surrounded by concrete, I don't usually appreciate it the best until I go home to my parents since my mom is huge into decorating for the seasons, and I'd immediately be hit by the smell of apple pie cooking walking in the door.

I love fall and miss it quite a bit.  We have ridiculously nice, warm, sunny weather in SF from September to about mid-November, so I can't complain.  But I always will love October in the midwest/east coast.

 

There have actually been a couple of days (more noticeable in the East Bay where there are quite a few more trees) where the ground has been slightly covered with leaves and the air just has that crisp cool and the scent of autumn.  Definitely a nice reminder, but then the next morning you wake up and it's hot and sunny and summer all over again.

I like spring the best. Everyone starts to come outside and is in good spirits. Less clothes are being worn, which in some cases is a good thing and in other cases a not so good one...

 

It signals freshness and rebirth

Sienna

 

Dance, dance

Delicately down

Twisting to the seasons song

Dressed for the ball

Softly you fall

Keeping time ‘til winter’s waltz

I think we have Christmas and give gifts during December because winter is so depressing. They market Christmas as the "most wonderful time of the year". By February that crap is all over (and that's when we have the highest suicide rate).

Fall is pretty much over already :( This weather now sucks.

I would agree fall is best IF I was one of those people that went to the Caribbean  or to southern Europe for the entire winter.

I need to dig up some ancient photos I took on a perfect fall day in Ann Arbor.  The tree colors were intense.  They are probably blurry as hell though.

I would agree fall is best IF I was one of those people that went to the Caribbean  or to southern Europe for the entire winter.

 

Thats wussup!