Gloomy Sunday

It's a gloomy cloudy Sunday morning, following several other days of gloom.  Sometimes when I first get here I get overly enthralled with the idea of what it would be like to really move to a town of 4,000 people with great coffee, and a bookstore where you can get detailed advice on hiking trails as well as books, and super fresh sushi, and the limitless expanse of ocean and mountains.  It was extra easy to spin out these fantasies this year because the weather really was inordinately hot and sunny (almost 70 degrees) for the first 3 weeks or so.  But now we're back to the reality of temperate climates, which is lots of clouds and the possibility of spatters of rain at any moment.  I couldn't take months of not seeing the sun on a regular basis, which is certainly part of why we'll be going back to Boulder on Labor Day.