This Week: Fall

This is my favorite time of the year: the fall!
Always lovely, always welcome!
There is something so comforting when the air turns cooler and the days get shorter. I have never, ever had a problem with this season.
No, not even when I lived in Sweden and the fall started for real in the beginning of September. Some years we had snow in Stockholm in the beginning of October. Did I complain? No, I so did not. I loved it…
And how about the darkness??? No problems! Not for me. I think it is quite cozy with the darkness in Scandinavia this time of the year. Just imagine getting home, you light candles, you may even start a fire and you enjoy it all underneath a blanket with a cup of tea in your hand. That is lovely! And yes, I do realize the fact that I am romancing this a bit…I know the reality, too; when you stand in freezing rain waiting for the subway, when you walk home on a dark, cold and stormy night…But still…

I am longing for all that just a little bit.


Now I live in a climate that is a tad bit too warm for me, at least it’s been that way this fall. No, to tell you the truth, it is a bit warm for me always, all seasons. I see zero comfort in having temperatures in the 80’s (around 30 degrees C) when it is October, zero! It’s been going on for waaay too long, I am ready for something else now.



It feels, sometimes, that I am the blogging queen when it comes to the weather. My Swedish-speaking readers read about my thoughts of the weather over and over again on my blog. But, what can I say? I am a weather nerd…
Sometimes you can find me in front of the TV watching “The Weather Channel”. I can sit there and watch the channel waiting for the local weather that shows up every ten minutes along with watching the “storm stories”. I don’t know why the weather is interesting to me, maybe because I am from the far north? I compare the weather here, and the weather in southern Europe. The DC area and the Mediterranean are on the same latitude but yet the weather here and there is different. We don’t have either their flora or fauna, our winters are colder and our summers are more humid.
So, here I am, looking forward to a rainy day, but I don’t want to jinx it now when I am almost due to have visitors from Sweden. My dear visitors live in northern Sweden, an area that already has experienced a few snow storms this fall, an area where the days are very short. I want them to experience the DC-area with loads and loads of sunshine, I want them to have warm days while they are here, and then once they are off to Sweden again I wouldn’t mind seeing rainy, cold and gray days. Bring it on then!!!



I am forever a Swedish girl…You can take the girl out of Sweden, but you can never take Sweden out of the girl…