Monday, February 4, 2008

Comin' On Spring


I just wrote an entire blog about spring coming and coming soon. It was full of redbud and dogwood and bare feet and azaleas and open doors and warm breezes and how it got to 78 degrees here today.

Seventy-eight, y'all.

Oh. Heaven.

It was about the almost-indecent swelling of the Japanese Magnolia blossoms and the hundreds of birds flocking around the feeder and that soon the browns and grays of winter will be replaced with all the colors of new-born green the eye can take in.

It was good.

And then I lost it. I did it. Technical dumbfoolery on my part.

But hell, I think I'll have lots of time to write about the glory of spring when it is actually spring.

What I would like to say, though, is that for a lot of us North Floridians, nothing could make us happier than to have actual proof that spring and all that it promises is surely coming. We're not the hardiest bunch of folks here when it comes to winter. Or, some of us aren't, anyway. We couldn't tolerate a winter in Alaska or perhaps even in North Georgia and that is why we live here, my friends.

Right here where on February 4th, 2008, we thawed out, took off our coats and sweaters and socks and opened up the house.

Some of us had bare toes and happy hearts.

Okay. At least I did. And it's been glorious.

13 comments:

  1. OH It's 33 degrees here, I still have *&%(*%@#$)(& snow and ice on the ground and it's going to do it again. Got any room . I'm the Master Gardener coordinator for my county for the extension. I NEED spring! It's me again....can't get the blogger to accept my password- Sally

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  2. Hey Sally- plenty of room. Are you pouring over your seed catalogs? That's a favorite activity of mine in the pre-spring season.
    Your gardening credentials are most impressive! I am but a dilatante. I plant by instinct and learn nothing from my mistakes.
    But I have fun.
    I'm about to eat a salad of arugula, spinach and mustard from our winter garden.
    Wish you could join me.

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  3. Sorry. That would be "dilettante."
    Yeah. I can't spell, either.

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  4. I am so jealous. We are buried in snow with more on the way. My fair city has seen so much snow that I broke my snow shovel this year. Oh I am ready for bare toes.

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  5. Bare toes are the very, very best. But let's talk in August, okay? Things will seem less idyllic here by then.

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  6. I opened up my house last night and enjoyed the breeze. Of course, mine is less woody and more car-scented, but the fine weather makes that worth it.

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  7. It was supposed to get up to 60 degrees here today, but it didn't. I marked the occasion by not wearing a wool hat. I think it got up to 56 and my lilac bush may be budding. We had about 2" of rain over the weekend, but I'm not complaining - if it had been 20 degrees colder, 2" of rain would have been 2 feet of snow!

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  8. Spring is a great time for voting for Barack Obama!

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  9. Juancho- or any other season you could mention.
    MOB- how in the world do y'all keep up with all that outerwear you have to don to survive in the cold?

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  10. I love this weather. Love it love it love it! And that self portrait of you! YeeOW! :)

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  11. Amps- It's so funny. I've always hated cameras and they haven't like me that much either. BUT- with Photo Booth I can sit here and take hundreds of pictures and just discard the ones I don't like. Take a hundred pictures and one of them's bound to be decent.

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  12. You are dang right that is why we live here in North Florida! (Although those other places are OK to visit sometimes. Just visit. Only visit. Then come home. To North Florida.)

    BFF,
    Miss T

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  13. You are SO right, Ms. T. I am so grateful to be home. Where I belong.

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