"winter"

Down here in Texas, we have to work hard to create winter.

It's not really a season in Houston, exactly.  It's more like a series of fronts that blow the heat away for a few months, a couple of days at a time.

So holiday decorations have a kind of make-believe quality.  Like we're pretending it's winter.  We're insisting it's winter, dammit.  And the whole city has to work together as a group to pull it off.  And we're going to make cider and feel cozy even if we have to run the air...