{"id":781,"date":"2018-06-14T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/?p=781"},"modified":"2018-06-14T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T16:33:00","slug":"looking-for-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/2018\/06\/14\/looking-for-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is how one fellow put it, when we asked what the weather was like where he was living, \u201cJanuary, January, March, March, March, June \u2026.\u201d Trying to make sense of the weather is definitely an area we have in common with everyone wherever we have traveled on our Home Assignment. We often hear people tell us \u201cIf you don\u2019t like the weather, just wait a minute and it will change.\u201d Almost everyone says some form of that, thinking that they are unique in this assessment.<\/p>\n<p>But, we don\u2019t often say that in Colombia. When we first got to Colombia we soon adapted to the consistency of the weather \u2013 a nice fall day, everyday, in Bogota. We have never looked up the weather report for any Colombia city where we have lived or are traveling to \u2013 not for 5 days, 10 days, never. It either rains or it doesn\u2019t, thus affecting temperatures slightly. Regarding rainy seasons and non-rainy seasons, mankind is affecting the weather. We often are surprised to find that it is raining so much when it didn\u2019t do so last year. Or we are surprised to find out we are in a drought when it should be raining. Yet, overall, the weather is constant and it either rains or it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>When sharing about the weather and the climate in Colombia, instead of saying we have four seasons, we like to use the cities or areas as examples of the seasons you are used to. Each region is a season of the year (as we know them in North America) the coast \u2013 Cartagena, Barranquilla, Guajira, Monteria are like summer days, whereas Medellin, Cali are eternal spring days. Bogota is the fall weather. The higher mountain cities \u2013 Pasto and Ipiales are like mild winter days (without the snowfall). So, depending on where you are will determine what weather you can count on finding. As for us this year, we have been looking for a string of consistent, spring time weather. I don\u2019t know that we will find it, because we haven\u2019t found it so far. Have you?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-782\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/06\/IMG_5128-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/06\/IMG_5128-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/06\/IMG_5128-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/06\/IMG_5128-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/06\/IMG_5128.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-783\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/06\/IMG_5061-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/06\/IMG_5061-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/06\/IMG_5061-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/06\/IMG_5061-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/06\/IMG_5061-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/06\/IMG_5061.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-784\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/06\/IMG_1254-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/06\/IMG_1254-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/06\/IMG_1254-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/06\/IMG_1254-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/06\/IMG_1254.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=781&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is how one fellow put it, when we asked what the weather was like where he was living, \u201cJanuary, January, March, March, March, June \u2026.\u201d Trying to make sense of the weather is definitely an area we have in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/2018\/06\/14\/looking-for-spring\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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