Beautiful one day...Perfect the next

Hi Everyone

I am sitting here at my computer and out the window the sun is shining and we have a beautiful blue sky with intermittent fluffy white clouds. Just want to lay on the lawn, close my eyes and be at one with everything.

Reality check!!  I am going swimming this morning, in about 30 minutes. My girlfriend should be here shortly and we are going to have a big catch up at the pool.  Swim followed by coffee for her and water for me.

I live in a state in Australia called Queensland and it has a saying 'Beautiful one day...Perfect the next'  Obviously it's not always that way.  But I live on the Sunshine Coast and I think we have some of the most beautiful weather in Australia.

Anyway, what about where you guys live in America.  Anything interesting about your states?  We have a tourist venue called the Big Pineapple (about 10 minutes from where I live).

I live in Washington "The Evergreen State!" Not!! At least not in the southeastern part of the state where I live. We only get 6-8 inches of moisture per year and that includes snow. The western 1/3 of the state gets a lot of rain and truly lives up to the name as does Seattle "The Emerald City." 

 One thing great about the good ole USA is if you don't like where you are drive a few hours and you'll experience and entirely different climate and scenery. I imagine Australia to be like that also. We met some wonderful Aussies on our Italian tour last October. What funloving people! I'm enjoying getting to know you.

Hi. My mother was born in Queensland, Australia in 1920. What a small world!

Hubby and I live in Newport, Oregon. It's a coastal town and so we can enjoy the beauty of the ocean. We have lots of tourists here during the summer and holidays.

During the summer, the weather is glorious most of the time. We enjoy mild temps (mid-60's most days) and mostly sunny days. During the remainder of the year, we get a lot of rain.

When we first moved to Oregon, we would marvel that people went out in all kinds of weather with shirts -- don't see all that many jackets and hardly ever see anyone with an umbrella. After being here 14 years, we also go out w/o umbrellas. Just duck your head and run like heck to cover. Ha!

When the weather is very warm inland, we often get heavy fog.

We love it here, though.

Cindy P.

I live in Northern Michigan. Beautiful summers, cold winters with lots of snow. Since we live about 15 miles from the bay on Lake Michigan we gets lots of lake effect snow!! Traverse City is the closest "Big City" around. I still love it here, just don't ask me in Febuary.
Nan

Oh my I am jealous.  Wish I lived in Australia.   I am here in Ohio.  Nothing too interesting here. Love the summers, hate the winters.  Despise the snow and boy do we get it.

I have plans of moving South someday and I will be happy where the weather is pretty much the same all year round.  All I have to do is talk my husband into  it.  May just go without him..lol

Would love to see some pics of Australia if you can ever post them!

Peace

I live in the New England region in Connecticut which is the North East part of the U.S.  We get to experience all four seasons.  We are coming into my favorite one, fall, right now.  The colors of the leaves are spectacular here.  We have pumpkin, apple and christmas tree farms just down the road from us.  It is a 20 min. car ride to the nearest beach which is the Atlantic Ocean but it is in the Long Island Sound.  And we are an hour and fifteen min. ride to New York City.   We have lots of hills and valleys where I live.  We live where two major rivers converge, the Naugatuck and the Housatonic.  We have a saying here that if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes, and it will change.  Our summers are hot and our winters are cold and snowy.  Our state, rivers and many other names of places comes from a rich American Indian history.
But the most important reason we love where we live is that our whole family is here.
Bev