Countrylv22, here in New Hampshire, we have several seasons, mud season being one of them!
Mud Season comes WAY after "Oh look, the FIRST SNOW of the season. Isn't it just beautiful (magical, wonderful.. insert lovely descriptive term here)".
Several weeks after "PRETTY SNOW SEASON comes DIRTY SNOW Season. That's when the snow piles up on the sides of roads, and becomes a dark gray/black from the tons of salt, sand, pollution, etc.
Next usually comes DAMN IT'S COLD OUTSIDE Season, this comes and goes (sometimes we have a day of 75 degreez in January, just enough to get our perennial bulbs excited, only to be frozen to death hours later...
Eventually, we come to I'M THROUGH SHOVELING SNOW Season (that's when you notice your neighbors have begun to trudge through snow knee deep instead of trying to keep up with that white lumpy rain that just keeps falling...
MUD SEASON comes between I'M THROUGH SHOVELING Season and WHEN WILL THIS RAIN END Season (you've heard that April Showers bring May Flowers... well they also bring the first of New Hampshire's state bugs, black flies. Luckily they're also known as "May Flies", which means that they MAY be here through the entire month of MAY. They are especially fun when they fly up your nose
and even MORE fun if you happen to be digging in the garden when this happens... the excitement never ends.
When the cute little black flies go away, we're sometimes into June. June is wonderful. We can work in the garden, spend time hiking, biking, enjoying life in and outdoors. June is all about flowers blooming, grilling salmon on the grill, setting up the lawn furniture and playing a game of lawn jarts (I think we bought the last set before they were outlawed!) June is wonderful.
Next in the seasons come MOSQUITO Season. Warm summer days and nights seem to kick off this season, and it co-mingles with DAMN IT'S HOT Season and IT'S NOT THE HEAT, IT'S THE HUMIDITY Season. Don't let these seasons get to you--Summer is the shortest season we have, so ENJOY that HEAT! Soak up that HUMIDITY! Because all too soon... it's BACK TO SCHOOL Season, when we have to listen to whiney kids lament how it's just not fair (but hey that $150 pair of Nike sneakers might help...) Within a few short weeks, this season becomes LEAF PEEPING or FOLIAGE Season. Crystal clear blue-sky days mixed with sugar maple reds and oranges, birch bright yellows, brilliant burning bush everywhere. Columbus Day may be the celebration of the explorer who got lost, but explorers from the other 48 states drive up Route 93 (all 2 lanes of it) to see the show...
Just a few weeks after the Mother Nature shows her colors, the leaves turn brown and crispy, fall to the ground, making way for LEAF PILE Season, and in some areas, this is also LEAF BURNING Season. Enjoy it, because guess what... sometimes even before the kids have had their pilgrim play at school, it comes again, yes FIRST SNOW OF THE SEASON Season... and so it goes
This is sooo not what you were asking, but I had fun with it
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Originally Posted by countrylv22
you hear several people complaning about too much rain, 'mud season', too many floods.... I am just wondering why???
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And what tends to be the rainy season, from what month to what month??
Anyway, I believe the entire state of NH is quite beautiful!
And the people are very friendly!
So I am just wondering about FLOODS , and why???
Thank you,
Take care,
Countrylv22 |
