UNSEASONABLE (October 7, 2009)

The weather is stupendous. It is sunny and warm. Central Zagreb is crawling with people dressed in their summer lightest. And skimpiest. Everyone is delighted with the weather that smacks of June rather than October, but many people are a bit concerned about it, as well. If one would search for a single word to describe it, it would be “unseasonable.” To show how they feel about the weather when the topic comes up, and it comes up often enough, they raise their eyebrows, pucker their mouths, and keep mum. That is how stupendous it really is.