I have to change my name now
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Nope, didn't come from Savatage. I can't stand Savatage but my wife loves them.
At the risk of sounding like a ridiculous goth from the 90's, it's just my favorite time of the year. I love how in climates that have four seasons (like most of Europe's) you can see the changes for every season. Winter is the most dramatic change and I absolutely LOVE cold weather. I love America's northeastern climates as well, especially fall with all the color changes and temperatures. I love how everything dies for months, nothing grows, crushed underneath the snow and ice and harsh winds, only to be reborn again every spring. I look forward to winter here the most because when you're surrounding by thousand + year old structures, you feel transported back in time. I live in a mountainous region, and there are many ancient structures here, some of which go back to right after the fall of the Roman Empire (this place was conquered by Attila the Hun) and extend to the Middle Ages and on through the 1500s-1600s. In the winter when everything is quiet and everyone stays inside, it has a sort of energy about it; it's difficult to describe, although I'm sure Morbides can relate completely since Romanian landscapes are similar to Friuli's. You feel a part of the landscape and you feel a part of the land itself, like you were born from the earth...there's a sort of connection there for me. I can only imagine what it's like for the native people here, and it's easy to see how people can be so attached to their homeland, whereas in the states we pick up and move without a second thought. Here you realize that people are doing the very same things their ancestors did a thousand years ago; they're eating the same food in the winter, drinking the same drinks, doing the same activities, etc.
Every year during the winter when the wood has dried out because it rains very often in the spring, summer, and fall, we go into the woods and cut down some of the trees on our land, pull them out with the tractor, and make firewood out of them for our wood-burning stove heaters we use in conjunction with the gas radiators in our homes in order to keep heating costs down. Going out in the woods on Christmas Eve in 0 degree temperatures, trying to beat the snowfall, in woods that look like something from the Black Forest, you can understand what I mean by the "Dead Winter". It makes me feel more alive than the summer heat. I fucking hate summer.
Seriously. Fuck summer.
Friuli is a region in Italy, but it's not Italy. The people aren't really Italian, they don't even speak Italian although they're taught it in school and speak it better than most southern Italians. They share nothing in common with the rest of Italy, so much in fact that they would rather be Austrian than Italian. Don't get it confused with Trentino or South Tyrol, which is another region adjacent to Friuli where they actually speak Deutsche and not Italian at all, due to Austria giving the region to Italy after WW1. Friuli is an autonomous region, and coming here you can see the differences: things actually work here (for the most part) compared to the rest of Italy, which is a giant clusterfuck.
At the risk of sounding like a ridiculous goth from the 90's, it's just my favorite time of the year. I love how in climates that have four seasons (like most of Europe's) you can see the changes for every season. Winter is the most dramatic change and I absolutely LOVE cold weather. I love America's northeastern climates as well, especially fall with all the color changes and temperatures. I love how everything dies for months, nothing grows, crushed underneath the snow and ice and harsh winds, only to be reborn again every spring. I look forward to winter here the most because when you're surrounding by thousand + year old structures, you feel transported back in time. I live in a mountainous region, and there are many ancient structures here, some of which go back to right after the fall of the Roman Empire (this place was conquered by Attila the Hun) and extend to the Middle Ages and on through the 1500s-1600s. In the winter when everything is quiet and everyone stays inside, it has a sort of energy about it; it's difficult to describe, although I'm sure Morbides can relate completely since Romanian landscapes are similar to Friuli's. You feel a part of the landscape and you feel a part of the land itself, like you were born from the earth...there's a sort of connection there for me. I can only imagine what it's like for the native people here, and it's easy to see how people can be so attached to their homeland, whereas in the states we pick up and move without a second thought. Here you realize that people are doing the very same things their ancestors did a thousand years ago; they're eating the same food in the winter, drinking the same drinks, doing the same activities, etc.
Every year during the winter when the wood has dried out because it rains very often in the spring, summer, and fall, we go into the woods and cut down some of the trees on our land, pull them out with the tractor, and make firewood out of them for our wood-burning stove heaters we use in conjunction with the gas radiators in our homes in order to keep heating costs down. Going out in the woods on Christmas Eve in 0 degree temperatures, trying to beat the snowfall, in woods that look like something from the Black Forest, you can understand what I mean by the "Dead Winter". It makes me feel more alive than the summer heat. I fucking hate summer.
Seriously. Fuck summer.
Friuli is a region in Italy, but it's not Italy. The people aren't really Italian, they don't even speak Italian although they're taught it in school and speak it better than most southern Italians. They share nothing in common with the rest of Italy, so much in fact that they would rather be Austrian than Italian. Don't get it confused with Trentino or South Tyrol, which is another region adjacent to Friuli where they actually speak Deutsche and not Italian at all, due to Austria giving the region to Italy after WW1. Friuli is an autonomous region, and coming here you can see the differences: things actually work here (for the most part) compared to the rest of Italy, which is a giant clusterfuck.
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Thanks for that descriptive answer DW 
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As far as landscapes go, I did a google images search on Friuli and definitely see the resemblance with some areas from my homeland...the center that is. Speaking of Romans, reminded me of a pic I took once at the ruins of Sarmizegetusa. I like it because of the whole passage of time nostalgia, when you think about the empire :
Yup. No summer for me thanks.
. As far as landscapes go, I did a google images search on Friuli and definitely see the resemblance with some areas from my homeland...the center that is. Speaking of Romans, reminded me of a pic I took once at the ruins of Sarmizegetusa. I like it because of the whole passage of time nostalgia, when you think about the empire :
Yup. No summer for me thanks.
