Colorado
Col*low*rah*do/ Definition of Colorado: state of the interior western U.S. where one can experience multiple seasons in a week, or even in a day.
Several years ago, at my old job, we hired a young man from Florida who had never been to Colorado. On his first day I gave him a tour of the facilities and briefed him on the glories of the great state of Colorado. One of the items I warned him about was the local weather. I mentioned that while you hear people in other parts of the country say “if you don’t like the weather, stick around for 15 minutes”, but I explained to him that in Colorado this statement is true.
He didn’t say anything at the time (I mean, what is he going to say?), but about a year later he came up to me and said “when you told me about the weather I just rolled my eyes, because you hear that wherever you go. But you were right. The weather here is crazy!”.
I didn’t say anything, I just smiled knowingly. Welcome to Colorado youngster.
After the snow from this recent snow storm melted, I took a survey of my domain to evaluate possible damage. I had heard from several people that some of their trees had lost some sizable branches. I was concerned for my own landscape, because as you can see in the picture below, the snow in my area had been fairly heavy. Fortunately, I had no major damage. The only broken branch I found had fallen from my neighbors lilac bush into my yard. (Side note: because of the cold Spring, this years lilac blooms appears to have occurred really late this year).
