spring, we are ready for you
| February When skies are low and days are dark and frost bites like a hungry shark, when mufflers muffle ears and nose, and puffy sparrows huddle close-- how nice to know that February is something purely temporary. --N.M. Bodecker |
The trail that Fr. G and I normally walk on has been covered for the last month, and we are missing our walking dates by the reservoir. When I drive past the water there, the sun (when it deigns to shine) flashes on a white expanse of snow and ice. Ferry service has been suspended on the Hudson. Roads are narrower from all the plowed piles. In the grocery store parking lot, covered by ten feet of snow, a back hoe was loading the snow into a machine to melt it. I'd never seen that before. We are ready for a little green, and I'd even welcome the dead brown grass just now! I do like February, truly. I am using the indoor time to clear out closets and purge, little by little. Mercifully we still have power, unlike so many in other parts of our country. May their power return soon.
Thanks for sending a brave message from True Winter. I'm feeling chilly at the moment, not less so from reading your post, but was just commenting to someone that winter -- of course, it's always mild compared to where you are! -- seemed to have passed very quickly here. Maybe because I was huddled sick under blankets for the worst of January. Now I still have the closets unpurged, *and* garden things to see to!
ReplyDeleteWinter has definitely been extreme on the East Coast this year! I'm sorry you've been ill, but hope that a beckoning garden is invigorating for you. Here today is a balmy 33 degrees, which has been refreshing, but gardening is in the far distant future still!
DeleteI missed this post. It is quite cold right now. Beautiful pictures
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