Time don’t fly, it bounds and leaps

It snows a little. It clears off and is bright, shiny. It snows a little more. It clears off again. The wind sends seed pods aloft. They float for a while before settling in cracks in the sidewalk, my hair, your birdbath, under the windshield wipers. Daffodils and forsythia are emboldened. Birds pad their nests and negotiate treaties with the cats, the squirrels, other birds. The days get a little longer. The trees stretch. I begin to think winter will actually end.

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Comments (7)

  1. David wrote::

    Welcome back. Missed you for a few days there.
    I’ve always felt that winter sort of wanders away, rather than spring arriving. Maybe it just runs out of energy from all that bluster and storming about.

    Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 7:02 am #
  2. jagosaurus wrote::

    David: Thanks. Yeah, I guess I went a while (for me) without posting didn’t i?

    I see what you mean about winter. Here it tends to be completely and abruptly overtaken by spring at some point. That point is approaching but not quite fast enough for me.

    Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 8:12 am #
  3. gwen wrote::

    That is an elegant little piece.

    I am once again reminded that you and I live at very different latitudes. Seed pods? Lord almighty. We’re thinking about seeds up here, but we have to keep them on south-facing windowsills and coddle them with electric warming mats.

    We don’t get spring until May.

    Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 11:20 am #
  4. Marigoldie wrote::

    Nice.

    Friday, February 27, 2009 at 8:38 am #
  5. Karl wrote::

    You spoke too soon and jinxed it. Now I’m stuck inside with thirty large plants that should be in the ground by now, but aren’t because someone couldn’t keep her yap shut about spring.

    What am I going to DO with you, Jane?

    Sunday, March 1, 2009 at 7:16 pm #
  6. jagosaurus wrote::

    Karl: I am NOT responsible for Texas.

    Sunday, March 1, 2009 at 7:17 pm #
  7. tracy wrote::

    I realize you posted this last Wednesday; (today being Sunday) and I had to smile because we have around 3 inches of snow covering every tree limb and every back road here today. Of course I know this doesn’t do your heart any good, but it is so beautiful. And, I was just thinking I wish you were down this way to capture some great photos. I’ve actually missed the snowy winters, because for the last 4 years or so, it’s just been so damned bitter cold and gloomy. I like the snow part. I love spring, but then I get awfully depressed during the summer months…reverse seasonal affective disorder, I suppose. Plus, I hate the damned tropical ‘burns like hell’ heat.

    Sunday, March 1, 2009 at 7:53 pm #