In just spring

4/13/2022

We know what the “Signs of Spring” are, probably because we did so many "Signs of Spring" art projects in grammar school. We know what to notice. Green shoots. Birds singing. Kids playing outside with kites, jump ropes, and jacks.

Why do we celebrate Signs of Spring but not Signs of Winter? Hmmm? Maybe Winter ought to look into this and make a complaint?

Meantime, Karen K sent these photos. Look at these lovely pale-but-not-boring colors and hues.

Seedlings!

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Lorna sent this beautiful flowering cactus from Arizona

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Another Sign of Spring?

It’s been wondrously warm here for several days. Yesterday I checked my calendar first thing in the morning as I usually do and noted that I had a church zoom meeting late afternoon. Then I went for a long walk, wrote, did some house chores, one thing and another and it was still over 60 degrees when Len got home from his day - so we drove to the Fox River parkway to walk. Len was taking the photo of the woodchuck that heads this post when my phone vibrated. “Are you attending the meeting?”

Oops. Spring fever got me.

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Puddles

(photo by Len) 

In Just-Spring by e. e. cummings

in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed
balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee

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Len and I went for another walk this morning (NOT during any meetings). Now the sky is dark and big storms are coming.

This is our Chicago daughter’s cat, this morning, at the moment a roaring downpour began outside the kitchen window.