It would be normal to think that after 8 and a half years in Canada I might be used to the weather, but it would also be incorrect. In some ways the longer I'm up here the more it gets to me. People around me will celebrate a weekend like the one we just had with sunshine and jacket-free weather for four days in a row as a marvel. I feel entitled to that at the end of March and beginning of April and throughout the rest of the spring and summer.
The only advantage to being in Canada in the spring is that going so long with so many things looking dead makes all the blooming currently underway much more appreciable and appreciated. I love all the color and flowers in our garden and the cherry trees all over the city. We were on Vancouver Island for the weekend and it's the only part of Canada with better weather than Vancouver so the plants there were even happier. Combined with the later sunsets, this weather means I'll be spending a lot more time outside.
Ah,you people in Vancouver have no idea what a Canadian winter is really like. Spring at the end of March? Ha!
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