Spring has sprung

So yesterday was our first real day of spring. The nicest, warmest, and sunniest day since October. The mercury reached 20, and the sun was a welcome addition. People, naturally, started shedding their heavy winter overcoats and hats. Doing this revealed some things the winter coverings had shoved out of my memory, like crazy hair colors & styles as well as fashion senses. Pink, blue, red, purple hair dyes on people of all ages and sizes (literally, saw more than one 60+ year old woman with blue hair), and out again came the bright orange polka dots and 80s-style zebra patterns.

Yet the most amusing thing about the locals' reaction to the weather was their apparent need for ice cream. Yes, it was such a hot day, reaching 70 degrees F, that people just needed to cool themselves off with some frozen cream and sugar. "Return your insides to the depths of winter while your skin boils under the desert-like sun" ... "The only dessert for the desert months" ... "Miss winter? Experience it all over again on the inside!!" were just some of the musings I had whist sitting on a bench in a short-sleeved tee shirt.

But today, naturally, the temp dropped 10 degrees, and it's raining. Ahhh, spring.