A new thread for 2019. I intend to add one post to this thread each month - starting with a flurry, of course, because I have to catch up to June.
So far, it's been a shit year. Come suffer with me.
So this is my city:
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, (and, since 1949) Canada.
Some Spanish music to remind you of sun...
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So, January was brutal. Cold, long, lots of freezing rain, freezing fog, snow. The sun came out like twice.
The city made the best of it on NYE...
But then it was back to hibernation...
The sun! The sun!
But then it went away and we got buried alive.
But then it came back, but only because it was too bloody cold for clouds...
We drank away our heartaches...
But you can't get drunk enough to ignore freezing fog.
Even when it wasn't suffocating us, it was lingering just offshore taunting us...
Eventually it left and wildlife returned. We were working out at the gym when the fog finally broke and it was like the end of The Mist. People wept.
Then, toward the end of the month, things started to look up a little.
People took cautious first steps outside their homes.
Eventually it warmed up enough to breathe some life back into the streets.
A small taste of a habitable climate to lull us all into daring to hope, daring to allow ourselves to feel joy again. But it was a trap. February sent half the city south and the rest into therapy... and the "long, hungry month of March" lived up to its local legends.
My Dirty Old Town in 2019
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