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by Dave Williams<\/p>\n

I don’t like bright sunlight and hot afternoons.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t understand people who love summer, the hotter the better. That makes no sense at all.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’m a pluviophile though I don’t know why.<\/p>\n

I was born and raised in the heat of the Sacramento Valley and that was fine when I was a kid. Children in my day paid scant attention to sweat, dirt and scraped knees. But by the time I was too old to run through the neighbors’ lawn sprinklers I began dreading summer.<\/p>\n

For me spring is a sinister warning of what’s to come<\/p>\n

For the past forty years or so I’ve tried hard to find a radio job in cold, wet and perfectly dreary Seattle or Portland. I love the Pacific Northwest with its year-round sweatshirts, smokey chimneys and soggy green everything but I could never get a job there.<\/p>\n

Instead, I landed in Texas.<\/p>\n

Everything you’ve ever heard about Texas weather is true. We have 60 degree swings in 12 hours. We get heat, snow, flash floods and tornadoes, sometimes all in one week.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen hailstones pounding my yard on a 100 degree day.<\/p>\n

Summer in Texas begins in April and lasts until Thanksgiving. It is a withering, humid, debilitating heat. If it weren’t for the otherworldly buzzing of cicadas hidden in native oaks you’d swear there was no life on the planet during the heat of a Texas summer afternoon.<\/p>\n

Nights cool down to maybe 85.<\/p>\n

So, here it is mid-March. I know what’s coming and I dread it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But, for today only, I must confess: spring is beautiful and reinvigorating, even for a pluviophile in Texas.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We have the biggest sky I’ve ever seen. In spring we have our famous bluebonnets painting hills and prairies stretching to every horizon.<\/p>\n

We have colts and calves romping in green pastures and baby bunnies learning to hide for their lives from their many flying predators.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Mesquite smoke flavors the air as folks throw big slabs of brisket onto chunk charcoal before dawn.<\/p>\n

Texas kids are back on the lawn.<\/p>\n

It’s an early spring Saturday morning in Texas and it gives me pleasure. Yes, it does.<\/p>\n

Still, I know what’s coming.<\/p>\n

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