You know you live on the Gulf Coast when …

Yummy fresh tangerine!

Yummy fresh tangerine!

A friend from work brings you a piece of fresh fruit from a tree in his back yard…

And the fruit is a tangerine…

And the month is January.

Ah.

Now, that’s not to say that we don’t have a winter here on the island. Of course, we do.

It’s just that the typical “winter blast” in Galveston (think “temperate marine climate”) lasts only about two months, on average, and the odd chance of snow (SNOW?!) in this town would be so utterly remarkable as to set off panicked reports of an alien invasion (evil snowy Marfa lights?) and thus maybe even inspire a new Will Smith movie. Read the rest of this entry »