I'm ready for spring.
While this winter really hasn't been any longer than any other, it seems at times as if it's lasted for a year (at least), and I'm anxious for it to end. I'm ready to see spring flowers pop through the melting mounds of snow; I'm ready to be awakened by birds chattering outside my window. I miss the warmth, the sunshine, and the long, lazy days of summer. I miss long walks, barbeques, and afternoons spent in the hammock with an engrossing novel.
Winter is cold and dark, the ground covered with snow and ice, the trees brown and bare. Nature is sleeping--I feel like I am sleeping--and I'm ready for the sun to begin creeping up over the horizon to reveal that dawn--and spring--is fast approaching.
I recognize that with the arrival of spring, the end of this busy semester draws near--and a new life, a new perspective, awaits. Longer days and small, green buds on the tree branches represent for me the beginning of a new journey, the rebirth of hope and optimism, and I'm suddenly anxious to begin seeing the signs that mark this new direction.
I'm reminded by a quote from Anne Bradstreet: "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
This year, spring is most welcome.
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What a beautiful thought. I too had thoughts of spring on my mind this week...we had finally had temparatures that were melting the snow, requiring less layers of clothing, those temps where you actually feel the sun...
And then today it snows!!! It is gray and wet and not the pretty snow. This snow feels more like frozen rain and less like an invitation to snuggle.
This is the first winter in many where I have endured the North Dakota cold. I admit that at the first snow I was excited. I wanted to make snow bunnies and have hot chocolate. Soon the enthusiasm waned. And now, I can't wait for warmth.
I long for barbeques and vegetable gardens, watching the kids chase bubbles in the backyard. I want flowers blooming and butterflies. I am tired of dirty brown snow and long johns.
Let's all celebrate spring. And welcome it so that it will come soon.
Picking up where Lisa left off...
And then tonight, BIG BLINDING SNOW. Luckily I was inside at a banquet eating wonderful food and enjoying great company so I was able to wait it out.
Enough winter. Enough.
But with spring comes a burning question: WHAT DO I WEAR????
Janet, leave it to you to make this all about fashion! ;)
What difference does it make? You look beautiful in everything! But to be more specific: those pretty, long, flowing skirts you like to wear with your designer flip-flops, and cute summer sweaters in layered pastels. Add a rocking little handbag, and you're ready to take on the world!
K.
Ladies,
Let's admit it...if we were true to spring wouldn't we just go naked? heehee
Oh, Lisa, now that's an image and a half! All these winter-white, winter-pudgy, winter-slobby bodies leaping around happily, welcoming spring....
(Janet scrubs her mind out)
LOL!
Janet,
I see it differently. These gloriously flabby, white, and doughy bodies celbrating spring and real women's bodies. We could turn the world around, encourage women to eat, encourage them to dance. Where's a Maypole? Let's go.
You first.
(grin)
Uh, yeah. What SHE said. ("You first!")
And then Janet.
And then--and ONLY then--I'll think about it. :)
Important to remember: If we take Lisa's advice, "SPRING" is a noun, not a verb!!! EEK!
We'll all get together on a moonlit night and shed our earthly er, uh...inhibitions (i.e. clothes), dance around in a circle, and "draw down the moon."
Anyone have a fig leaf? :big grin:
You guys are wimps...but of course, North Dakota gives a new meaning to spring...I'm not sure it would be safe to be naked, maypole or not. Our nipples might freeze off;0
*plink*
*plink*
Uh-oh.
ROFLMAO!!!
You guys crack me up! :D
I don't think I have ever laughed that hard...
It was so funny that I keep finding myself thinking of it at odd times (like when I was feeding the cats last night, or this morning while I was getting dressed), and I crack up. L. asked this morning if I was losing my marbles, and that sent me over the edge all over again! ;)
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