The inertia in the climate system is amazing to behold. It takes half a year of ever less sunshine for the winter to set in, and it takes another half a year of ever more sunshine for the summer to begin. The earth and its atmosphere accumulate and dissipate heat only gradually, and at the same rate in both directions. It takes exactly half a year either way. The symmetry is amazing, too. Precisely at the point when the sunshine becomes ever more abundant, the winter begins, and just when it becomes ever less abundant, the summer sets in. Amazing to behold, no doubt. It has been so cold the last couple of weeks in Motovun, however, that it is difficult not to feel like complaining about the climate system, amazing as it undoubtedly is. Starting tomorrow, there will be ever more sunshine for six full months, and it would thus be reasonable to expect ever more heat. Starting tomorrow, too. Well, at least a bit more heat. For crying out loud, we earthlings are visual types!