Hallelujuah!! Summer is here!!
¡Voy a la playa mañana! After a long, cold, snowy winter, summer is finally here!! 
At least it is for the northern hemisphere.
In the U.S., this is Memorial Day weekend and this signifies the beginning of the summer season. I was wondering if there is a similar "opening" of the summer season in other parts of the world.
What is the one thing that best symbolizes summer for you?What is the one thing you look forward to the most during the dreary days of winter?
Every summer, people from the Philadelphia area head down to the Jersey shore. One of our favorite things to do is to walk on the "boardwalk". 
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Only 2 seasons in Cochabamba Bolivia a wet summer (rainy season) and a dry winter (no rain for about 8 months) sunshine almost every day. Officially the climate is called a "mountain Desert" at 8500 feet everything grows here including bananas and of course coca leaf. Lovely.
GEOGRAFÍA El departamento de Cochabamba es esencialmente montañoso ya que está atravesado por el ramal Oriental de la Cordillera de los Andes. Situado al centro de Bolivia, se ubica a 2558 metros de altura sobre el nivel del mar. Su capital es la ciudad de Cochabamba que se encuentra entre los 17° 23' de latitud sur y los 66° 09' de longitud oeste del Meridiano Greenwich. Tiene una extensión de 55.631 Km.2; cuyos límites son; al norte con Beni; al sud con Potosí y Chuquisaca; al este con Santa Cruz; y al oeste con La Paz y Oruro. El departamento de Cochabamba tiene una población de 1.110.205 habitantes (censo de 1992. Cuenta además con varios valles ubicados a diferentes alturas sobre el nivel del mar, siendo los más importantes los de Cochabamba, Sacaba, el Valle Alto y el de Cliza. Esta dividido en 16 provincias y 201 cantones, siento su capital la provincia Cercado. Otra zona geográfica de mucha importancia es la del Chapare considerada una de las cinco regiones con mayor precipitación pluvial del mundo, con índices que superan los 5.000 Mm. Año, humedad que favorece la presencia de bosques impenetrables.
Winter in Cochabamba
2 friendly Cochabambinos of the more than 1m people in Cochabamba
This will be my office from now on.
I am not really able to make such a fine distinction of the seasons in Puerto Rico. Seems like there is a rainy season, a somewhat cooler rainy season, a really wet rainy season, and a ridiculously hot rainy season....
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Wild strawberries in the forest...
Fresas silvestres en ell bosque...
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Poppies in the meadow...
Amapolas en el prado...
My official shoes of summer: chancleta
Mañana abren las piscinas al aire libre en Madrid!!!
Yupeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Si alguien me quiere acompañar, me voy a esta piscina mañana
In England summer is signalled by the arrival of cool wet weather, following on from the cold wet weather of autumn winter and spring!
This is one of the reasons that I moved to Spain. However, we have just had our worst winter on record for rainfall in Andalucía.
I love experiencing the people, music, gondolas, lights, and warmth that make up the WaterFire celebrations in Providence, RI.
What is the one thing that best symbolizes summer for you?
When the snow melts in Montana in July or August it is a good sign that summer has arrived. Sometimes people say there are only two seasons in certain parts of Montana: Winter and 2 months of bad sledding. (I'm sure many other places claim this also, I'm not sure where it came from)
What is the one thing you look forward to the most during the dreary days of winter?
I love winter but I love the changing of the seasons the most. I really get spring fever and look forward to, senderismo en las montañas alta.
Me gusta las películas que se estrenan en el verano, y me gusta el calor también porque odio el invierno. Pero ayer estábamos 32 grados, trabajo en el exterior y moría. :(
This is what summer makes me think of:
In Melbourne we know summer is here when on the first Tuesday in November they hold the World famous 'Melbourne cup" it is a horse race which attracts stables and people from all over the world and there is a week of carnival fashion parades etc, I know then that the beautiful summer is here,and all is well with the world.
Like in the case of Gekkosan, here in the Philippines, we have something more like just variations of summer. The cycle goes like: hot summer, terribly-hot summer, rainy summer, cooler summer, getting-warmer summer. Right now we are still in the terribly-hot phase, but perhaps within a couple of weeks the rains would start coming. Then we worry about the floods...
I love the smell of a barbecue grill (the old ones with charcol) and the sound of a lawn mower.
These things tell me that summertime has arrived!!
I just returned from a day at the shore. Here are some of the "smells and tastes" of summer:
Has anyone ever tried funnel cake?
