Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts
welcome ladies










(picture on left taken in December - picture on right taken last March)
The snow is almost completely melted and it looks like Spring may be well on her way to Michigan. Spring is such a different experience here than from Alabama. Alabama Spring is impulsive and comes in with a bright green dress, bright pink lipstick and lots of loud songs. Every year she would surprise me - just one day, BOOM! there she was in all her glory, green leaves, daisys and all and I loved her - I loved her thunderstorms and her warm genial smiles and I love that almost overnight I could switch over to "summer clothes". Alabama Spring is restless, though and never stays long - summer is not far behind her.



Michigan spring is much more gradual and soft. She is a bit more shy, coming and going couple times till she finally decides to stay, and then - oh then! You can watch her grow and come into her own, watch her overcome winter slowly but definitely and I love her also - I love the promise she brings - winter does not last forever! There is hope! Hope of sun and of flowers and of tomatoes that taste like tomatoes and hope that evil will not triumph and ultimately hope of Heaven - that's what she whispers to me in her gentle winds......hope. Because of her shy and careful ways - Michigan Spring always tricks me. At the first sign of the sun and a rise in temperature - I break out the tank tops and picnic blankets - something I could do with Alabama Spring. I am usually gently rebuffed and I resign myself to a lighter jacket and am satisfied to simply watch her unfold. Never in my life have I appreciated flowers so much. I watch them in awe as they blossom - I am content to spend long periods of time just looking at them - letting them feed my soul with their beauty. (this is a pleasure I am still looking foward to this spring).



So, do your thing Spring - you are welcome, wherever you are.




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The Perfect Day
This is spring break at the university, but alas, Jonathan and I still had to work. So we decided to take a one day spring break. It was glorious and I would like to share it with you.

We woke up late, actually that's kind-of a lie. Jonathan got up at like 7 I think to start making some oven-dried tomatoes. I woke up then too, but forced myself to lay in the bed till 9 :)

Then we made pancakes and watched a pilot for a new show called Kings. Heard of it? It's really cool; it's the story of David in modern times. Very clever; the producers really did their homework.

Then we went to play tennis...and while we've done this a few times already this week...gradually becoming better and better....it's like we reverted to beginners, we were aweful. There were some old people in the court beside us (probably 70's) who were kicking our butts :) But it was fun.

Then we came home and took a shower and got our picnic ready. We had delicious sandwiches on Jonathan's homemade honey-oat bread (oh so yummy) with his fantastic sundried
tom-ah-toes...it was glorious!

We went to the beach for our picnic, with our books for reading. It was quite windy and cool at the actual beach (and I had decided to be daring and wear shorts in the 60 degree weather :), but Jonathan and I aren't big beach people anyway, so instead we enjoyed ourselves at a beautiful little park close to the beach. We layed on a blanket in the soft spring sun (have you ever noticed that the sun feels soft in the spring?) had our picnic, took a nap, read our books (I finished my Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island...hilarious.

Then we went to the public library, got some more books, and went home to plan our garden.

Absolutely wonderful.
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