I was almost seventeen before I encountered "spring."
This year, it snowed eight inches on the 1st of May, and the subsequent week was cool, cloudy, and rainy. The sun came out again on the 12th, and today, hauling brush and branches, I am sweating as the temperature hits 80° F (27º C).
Sugarbowl clematis is blossoming and some trees are leafing. (Gambel oak, a native, always waits until late May.) Hummingbirds orbit the sugar-water feeder.
Evidently, our spring is over — or almost over.
But just before my seventeenth birthday, I was living for a time in suburban St. Louis with my older sister's family, and something odd happened.
There was a period of some weeks when it was not too warm, flowers blossomed everywhere, and the notorious St. Louis humidity was not yet oppressive. People seemed to revel in it.
Evidently that is the "spring" of which the poets speak. We never have it.
Ancestral wisdom is encoded in a little verse, however, which tells how Colorado has
This year, it snowed eight inches on the 1st of May, and the subsequent week was cool, cloudy, and rainy. The sun came out again on the 12th, and today, hauling brush and branches, I am sweating as the temperature hits 80° F (27º C).
Sugarbowl clematis is blossoming and some trees are leafing. (Gambel oak, a native, always waits until late May.) Hummingbirds orbit the sugar-water feeder.
Evidently, our spring is over — or almost over.
But just before my seventeenth birthday, I was living for a time in suburban St. Louis with my older sister's family, and something odd happened.
There was a period of some weeks when it was not too warm, flowers blossomed everywhere, and the notorious St. Louis humidity was not yet oppressive. People seemed to revel in it.
Evidently that is the "spring" of which the poets speak. We never have it.
Ancestral wisdom is encoded in a little verse, however, which tells how Colorado has
Winter in the spring,
Summer in the fall,
Fall in the winter,
And no spring at all.
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