Spring is the Second Best Season.
It’s Spring! new season, new quarter, new season of The Student Podcast! Lookout for the first episode coming next Monday.
When it comes to the four seasons, I’m a fall guy through and through. There is nothing better in my opinion that a cloudy and damp weekend sitting inside watching football. Even sunny days in the fall are the best, the bright colors of leaves pop and it’s starting to turn into beanie and sweater weather. Can’t beat it. However, as we approach full spring weather, I have realized spring takes the place of number two in my favorite seasons.
Right around the end of March is when everyone starts to crawl out of their holes and boost their moods with the small bits of sunlight we get. Seasonal depression is a real thing and hits its prime in the winter. According to the National Instutlue of Mental Health, most cases of seasonal affective disorder start in late fall and early winter and typically go away once spring and summer roles around. Coincidence? probably not. I would say that I am fortunate to not experience this, however I have many in my family who do and I see how it affects them first hand. The weather in spring plays a huge role in them getting out and about.
Spring in Washington can be hit or miss, with so many rainy days (which I don’t mind) it can be hard to find the beauty in spring. When it comes to weather, spring is that perfect in-between in my opinion, the weather is starting to shift and bring people the joy of sunshine, but it’s not scorching hot. There’s a good mix of rain and colder days in there as well to fill those sweater weather needs. Like everyone else, once that January spot hits, I am just looking forward to spring weather, once spring is up, I just want it to be fall.
Sports, sports, sports, spring brings sports. For me, spring marks the start of golf season as well as baseball. Growing up playing baseball and being a Mariners fan, this time of year brings that feeling of nostalgia from my childhood. There are those days where I walk outside and the smell of wet grass and dirt hits me and I am instantly taken back to little league in Darrington. I always finding myself saying “it smells like baseball” on those days. Once the MLB season gets going in late March, I find myself scrolling for hours on Instagram just watching in awe of all the highlights from the weekends slate of games. I think the MLB has some of the best social media out there and when the season kicks off, the social media teams are in full swing, no pun intended.
Golf also takes center stage when the spring weather roles around and everyone gets out to the links. Tournaments like the Wells Fargo championship, the PGA Championship and last but not least the Masters Tournament are prime television for those who enjoy golf. Sitting down to watch the Masters (which growing up I NEVER thought I would be doing) is a whole mood that I can’t explain. If you like to play like me, it’s so hard to get out and enjoy a round when you have 20 degree wind gusts hitting you in the face. The sunny, 38 degree days during the start of spring feel like prime conditions once you come out of the dog days of winter golf.
Fall won’t be topped for me, but I think spring will hold that second place slot for the rest of my days. Get out there and enjoy it, soak up the sun and enjoy the May showers and the June flowers before the scorching hot days make it miserable to be outside and wildfire smoke covers up what little sunny days we get throughout the year. But hey, that’s Washington right?