Raining in Denmark

The snow has mostly melted in Copenhagen. I've been using the ice on the chain of lakes around downtown as a gauge for whether Spring is on the way. There almost entirely thawed at this point, and it's raining. Rain is good, I think, because if it were colder, it would be snow. Meaning that Spring would definitely not be on the way.

But I've been fooled before. The lakes almost thawed last month, and then snow dumped on us for three days. The weather has been doing this a lot lately. Warm, cold. Thaw, freeze. I'm starting to understand what T.S. Eliot meant when he said "April is the cruelest month," and it's only March.

The great thing about weather in Denmark is that, like Seattle, when the weather gets good, people really flip out. Everybody is outside all the time, on days that are even only moderately nice. What San Diego would consider a cold day. You get out and try to soak up as much vitamin D as possible, to remind yourself that life is good and people are often wonderful. I love that about Denmark.