See that photo on the banner of this blog? I took that at a retreat on Whidbey Island off Seattle. I will be going there again a couple of times this year. It's such a beautiful area.
I really enjoy visiting lush, juicy, green places like Whidbey where things can't help but to grow abundantly.
But you notice that I say that I like to visit them. I am most at home where it's dry. I don't know why. Maybe my wiring is tangled up or something, but I feel claustrophobic when there is too much air, too much moisture, too much forest and moss. In places like that, I feel slow and moldy. I need the open prairie or the Rocky Mountains or the desert in order to feel like I'm home; in order to breathe and experience spaciousness.
And I'll willingly accept the wrinkles and dry skin that come with living in this land of little humidity.
(We have had so little moisture here so far this winter that I'm hoping I don't reach the point at which I've had too much of a good thing!)
How about you? Are you a lover of moist and mossy or a connoisseur of the dry, open spaces?
That photo could have been taken in England where the moisture last year was beyond normal!
ReplyDeleteI love wide open spaces and dry air (Wyoming and the Australian Bush come to mind). I hate moist heat.
Just to kind of contradict myself, the sight of green lush England, when returning from somewhere dry and parched is a beautifully welcoming sight ... but perhaps it's because it's home?
It is a beautiful picture and I'd like to visit. But I grew up in Colorado so like you I am accustomed to dry conditions. I do wish our past week hadn't had record highs, though.
ReplyDeleteI like it different :-0. Meaning I like the hot & sunny for a bit, then on to the water-logged and mossy, then to the......something different. I also am glad I live in a state that really gets all the seasons. I would not want to miss one. ~Mary
ReplyDeleteTropical. Definitely tropical. I like to be near flowing water of some type... river, stream, ocean, waterfall... and lots of flowers. Many, many flowers.
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Dancing,
ReplyDeleteSo THAT'S why you holiday in the States!
Green is definitely kind to the eyes after hanging out in brown plains and deserts for awhile.
Otowi,
ReplyDeleteYeah, this warmth is crazy.
Where are our March snows???
Mary,
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by!
I can understand the need for variety. I would enjoy that, also. I'd just have to keep the water-logged and mossy down to a minimum.
(Wondering where Mary lives so that she can have it all, climate-wise.)
Chani,
ReplyDeleteYep! I saw your beautiful ocean photo. I'm glad that you are on your way to living by the beach!
Pardon me, but I think your Kansas is showing. At least growing up there is what I attribute my need for open space to.
ReplyDeleteHey Larry,
ReplyDeleteI think that you're right about the origin for the need for open spaces. Now that I no longer live there, I find Kansas to be way too humid, though.
Did some famous person I know say "The West is best?"
I get the worst of both worlds with IA summers and SW desert winters. But I love them both.
ReplyDeleteB.E.,
ReplyDeleteIf you love it, that's all that matters. You have interesting variety going on.
I've been to Whidbey Island, when I lived in Seattle many years ago! What a wonderful place.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in the west -- Idaho in fact. When I go back the air is too dry and gives me headaches because I am used to the tropical moisture in Houston. Go figure...