They say Colorado has over 300 days of sunshine a year, but nobody knows who came up with that figure. Considering the rainy, wet, miserable weather we have had here the past few days, with more of the same predicted, and you begin to think the sun will never shine in Denver again. It is damn depressing. I took the photograph on the left of a mist shrouded East High School, across the street from the bookstore where I work, yesterday morning. It is the kind of weather you would expect in Seattle or Portland, Oregon, but not here.
On the bright side, the bookstore where I work (the entrance of which is seen in the photograph on the right) is a lot more crowded and does a lot more business when the weather is like this, especially on the weekends. This is probably why Powell's Bookstore - occupying an entire square block in downtown Portland, Oregon - is such a success. After all, as far as I can tell, if Denver has 300 days of annual sunshine, Portland must have 300 days of rain a year. I imagine the choice for residents there is to either throw yourself off a cliff or spend the day at the bookstore. And I think they made the right choice.
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