[ZenGum]

In the mediterranean climate of southern Australia, spring has pleasant temperatures but still enough water about (usually!) for growth and life. Autumnal temperatures are good too, but things are often still dead from the summer dry.
Winter is a little cold and gray.
Summer is just too damn hot, although around dusk and moonlit summer nights totally rock.

In Japan, winter is shitty cold and summer is shitty hot and the transitions are just too damn fast. Spring flower-viewing is lovely, as are the autumn leaves.