Today, one day short of being halfway through December, with the outer world almost balmy, warmed today into the 70s, it was to Lucy Park I ventured today for the first time in a week or two, to briskly walk around the Lucy Park backwoods jungle, which, as you can see, via the photo documentation, is no longer in jungle mode, due to the trees losing most of their leaves, and the ground cover no longer green.
Yesterday was also not cold, so it was to the Wichita Bluff Nature Area I ventured to commune with nature whilst burning calories and enjoying feeling good from endorphins.
Yesterday and today the sweat pants stayed in the closet, back in shorts and t-shirt was I.
As if summer had returned.
When I was a Washingtonian, living on the west side of the Cascade Mountain range, in December, a day with the temperature in the 70s is rare.
In Western Washington, in summer, the temperature being in the 70s is considered a HOT day. On the rare days the temperature soars into the 80s and 90s, it is considered a blistering heat wave.
I did not have air-conditioning in any of my Washington abodes. The house I lived in before moving to air-conditioned Texas had a passive cooling system that worked well.
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