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Spring is determined

Spring in New England means snow one day and balmy temps the next. Yesterday it snowed all day. Today I shoved my jacket back in the closet and a hoodie sweatshirt does the trick.

I noticed that the streets are covered with the tree bud casings today. The willows have an intense chartreuse cast to them. Maples are a deeper green. There are baby leaves bursting out all over the place. In April! Spring has sprung a month earlier than normal. At least here on the coast. I haven’t been inland recently, so I don’t know what’s going on there. Oddly, though, the tulips and daffodils haven’t sprouted yet. Leaves on trees before the tulips bloom is an out-of-proper-order progression, but that’s the way spring wants it this year. I think the forsythia usually bloom before the leaves come out on the trees, but they haven’t burst out in yellow yet, either. Everything will probably catch up in the next week or two. But it is strange (and delightful) to see leaves coming out on the trees so soon. Whether it’s a good thing or not, I’m ready to see leaves on the trees.

And, this afternoon, a pair of house finches thoroughly investigated the light fixture beside my front door. They are preparing to build a nest and talked it over for most of the afternoon before they flew off. I don’t know what their decision will be, but I hope they choose a different spot. I don’t think they’d like having their nest on top of the light fixture. Of course, I wouldn’t turn the light on if they built a nest there, but the door opening and closing several times a day would be very upsetting to them. Birdie love is definitely in the air. The mockingbirds have started their nightly singing. Poor, poor lonesome boys.

Posted on 04/06/06 at 04:52 PM
 




cyn

Thanks for fixing all my mistakes yesterday.  What was I thinking??  Finches built a nest a few years ago on the top of our front door light.  The way it is configured, combined with my 5’2”. no one saw it for a while and I suspect it got pretty warm and cozy in their nest for a while!!  If I put a hanging plant there, it is almost a certainty they will build a nest in it as well, I can hang it under the light so I suppose it works as a little heat lamp--sun lamp??

And, have you heard the peepers?  Drove home fairly late the other night and could hear them over the radio blasting--one of my favorite Stones’ songs that MUST be played loudly--and with the windows up.  A sure sign of spring.  Birdie love IS in the air and those slutty morning doves are at it again--they are something else!! LOL

PS--just emailed you an article with what I consider to be the SCARY parts highlighted.....

United States   Posted by cyn on 04/07/06  at  08:14 AM





Kate

Oh my, you reminded me of sitting in 8th grade math with a row of windows overlooking the roof of the house next door. Where the love sick mourning doves congregated. For an 8th grade math teacher whose last thought and desire was being a part of 8th grade sex education, it was the wrong classroom in the spring. Those mourning doves were an amorous lot. And it was a whole lot more interesting than math in the afternoon.

Haven’t heard the peepers yet. Any day now. I love peepers.

Your article is somewhat good news and bad news, Cyn. While accountability is what we’ve been screeching for, the possibility of forcing it is a little sobering. And Republican dirty tricks in 2006 are going to be widespread and vicious even though I think they are in political hot water right now. The news this week has been awful for them. But it would also help a whole lot if we had some support in our own camp. Someone really needs to sit Nancy Pelosi down and tell her to act like a Democrat and quit trying to stab Feingold in the back every chance she gets. She frustrates me to death. And, oh please, let the good people of CT dump Joe.

United States   Posted by Kate on 04/07/06  at  09:13 AM





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