Sub Zero in MI

Friday afternoon while I was at work, I had a curious encounter on the elevator. We have many contractors onsite who are from India. I stepped on the elevator and struck up a conversation with a young man. He asked how my drive to work had been. It really wasn't a bad drive (the usual ice, snow and wind) so I couldn't complain.

Evidently, he was not expecting that response. (Imagine a lilting Indian accent). "You people here are CRAZY! I mean it! You live here by CHOICE! You're crazy! Never, never would I choose to live here!" :-)

How do I explain the joy of hearing 200 birds snuttering in my blue spruce on a sub-zero winter day?
Or my search in the fall for just the right branch to lay by my birdfeeders? Or watching the wide variety of birds (cardinals, blue jays, woodpeckers, nuthatches, gold finches, house finches, grackles, juncos, starlings, mourning doves and our friendly neighborhood Coopers Hawk).

Or that first great spring day when you know the worst is over and the sun will shine again for MONTHS!

Guess I would miss these ever changing seasons!