Boston, land of the Big Dig, home of tight knit groups who call each other family with no blood relation. Winter teaches you how to shovel your car out of snow banks with red raw hands and a pizza box. Teaches you balance as you slip and skid your way down city sidewalks laced with ice, black like onyx. Girls with ******* and short dresses shiver on the T, their puffy white breaths begging for warmth while their counterparts stand snuggled in down jackets zipped up to their nose. Spring brings rain and the snow becomes muddy slush splashing against your car that can never really be clean. But then the flowers come and you forget about the cold as the humidity sinks in like a fat man into his favorite recliner. The swamp is ever noticeable in Summer as everyone walks in knee high mud, trudging slowly to the Boston Pops. Fall is perfect. Crisp colors and the sweet smell of apples and pumpkins last for months as cheeks turn rosy and hands find safe harbor in pockets. Boston land of men and women not boys and girls Home of seasons at spectrums end and the only place that will always be home.