Vancouver Winters

I didn't think I'd ever sigh and wish for something like a Vancouver winter, but today with the drizzle outside, and given how dry it is, I wish it would just keep doing this for a month - or four. Vancouver is glorious from mid July through October, and then the winter rains set in. Before too long there is interminable cold rain - often with the temperatures never leaving the thirties day or night - just a non stop drizzle. With the short days of winter there would be days when I would trudge the three blocks to the bus stop in the dark rain, take the hour bus ride to school, spend most of the day in the Regent College library, get back on the bus in the dark and rain and go home. Sometimes a cold front would pass through and sweep away the clouds, leaving a beautiful scene such as above. Sometimes it would even snow. And, interestingly, while it would be raining down below in the city, it's snowing about a about 2-3000 feet in the mountains north of the city, providing a base of snow 10 -15 feet for skiing there. Finally Spring hits in April or so, and the flowers come out, and it is beautiful again. Today I long for Vancouver winter. I didn't think I'd ever say that.