Sorry, I'm jaded and cynical. Okay, I'll give you the pretty colours...
But then there's having to get up in the morning when it's still dark...picking crunchy dead leaves out of your windshield wipers...nasty, whipping rainstorms that pull all the leaves down, then you have to drive really slow so you don't slide on the piles of leaves on the road...
Let's not even talk about RAKING.
And then comes winter...with the cold and snow...blizzards that deposit so much snow that you're in it up to your hips (like I was last year)...
BTW, I'm actually a midwest girl myself. My family is from Chicago...I was born there myself and still have a lot of relatives there.