What is the ideal reading weather?
Years ago, in mid-April, back when I could still spend an entire Saturday afternoon sitting on the couch reading, I was doing just that. It was an overcast day and drizzling. Not enough that you could hear it unless you were really quiet. Which, since I was reading, I was being pretty quite. The trees had all blossomed and now, with the help of the drizzle, the petals were falling to the ground. It was the first day the petals were falling, so there were a lot of them.
I was on the couch by the door to the backyard, so I had a great view of the outside world. Every time I looked up, it was like being in Fairyland. Just cool enough that I had a blanket and a mug of tea and with this magical rain of flower petals outside my window.
It was a perfect day, and that's the ideal reading weather.
Barring that, I'm happy reading in lots of different weather. Freezing days with piles of snow and more coming down. Warm days before the bugs are alive and the sun gets too high, when I can enjoy laying in the backyard. Rainy, stormy days, when I can practically feel the rain hitting the roof and windows. Chilly, foggy days when all I want to read about are witches and vampires. It's all great.
But those flower petals - that was a perfect afternoon.
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