When I was little, I remember the saying, “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.” The way I understood that was, March is stormy and awful at the beginning, and it’s spring’s early days at the end. Life experience tells me that’s sorta true, and this year has probably beenContinue reading “Signs of a Late Spring”
Tag Archives: Spring
The Last of the Melting Snow
After several gloomy days — pea soup fog, chilly drizzle, even a thunderstorm — today felt like a day in May. Bright, warm, sunny. The tree in front of my apartment looks like it’s ready to bust open. I threw down some grass seed on the dying lawn in front of my apartment. Last summerContinue reading “The Last of the Melting Snow”
A Perfect Spring Day
Thr last few days have been a little rainy, a little chilly, a little gloomy. And work has been in a bit of a holding pattern; what I’d normally be doing this week — the order forms — has been pushed to next week, so I’ve spent the last two days trying to do nextContinue reading “A Perfect Spring Day”
Spring Fever at Week’s End
Even without my alarm clock going off, my bladder “knew” when I normally woke up to go to work, and it roused me at six-thirty. I got up, took care of business, turned on the coffee pot, and opened the apartment’s front door. The clouds were pretty at dawn, and I wanted to capture theContinue reading “Spring Fever at Week’s End”
On Longer Days
We know, from the days that we’re very small, that the length of day, from sunrise to sunset, grows and shrinks as time passes. In summer we have long days. In winter we have short days. The length of a day may change by a minute, two at most, from day to day, an imperceptibleContinue reading “On Longer Days”
On Baseball, the Harbinger of Spring
I look out from my office window at the glacier that still lays across Maryland, and a thought brightens my seasonally-affected spirits. The knowledge that pitchers and catchers have reported in Florida and Arizona. Soon, on fields of green, the boys of summer will be back. The crack of the bat, the smell of theContinue reading “On Baseball, the Harbinger of Spring”
On Signs of a False Spring
Today, it felt like spring. No, it wasn’t as warm as springtime often is. No, there were still mounds of snow in parking lots and a glaze of ice on the sidewalks. No, the sun was still far too low in the sky, and the clouds shifted awkwardly throughout the day. And yet! After weeksContinue reading “On Signs of a False Spring”
On Random Wednesday Thoughts
I love the way the air feels in spring. There’s a crispness. A tanginess. It’s like a sense of anticipation, that nature itself knows that something amazing is about to happen. I went for a walk on my lunch break today. The neighborhood around the office is, to be honest, not particularly exciting. There’s notContinue reading “On Random Wednesday Thoughts”
On Rainy Saturday Thoughts
There are fonts that I like. And there are fonts that I do not like. Among the fonts I do not like: Comic Sans Garamond Times New Roman I should say that I don’t just not like Garamond. I outright hate Garamond. The problem is that I spent years looking at resumes working as aContinue reading “On Rainy Saturday Thoughts”
On the Smells of Springtime
Springtime is a time of smells. This week, the landscapers have been hard at work around the office. Step out of the building, and the odor of mulch wafts over you. It’s overpowering. Everyone seems to hate it. Except me. I’m actually quite taken with the smell of mulch. I can’t tell you why. MaybeContinue reading “On the Smells of Springtime”