Feb
7
2015
Forty-five degrees. The warmest day in the next ten days. Spring is less than six weeks away. We still have to get through February and the cold and snow they keep forecasting. It is like that each year: the winter acts as if it will be here forever. But spring and the warmer weather is always around the corner.
Dec
5
2014
I can’t believe how fast the time is going. A little more than two weeks we will have reached winter officially and another thirteen weeks spring-officially anyway. It seemed as if Thanksgiving has just come and Christmas is less than three weeks away. Then New Year. I know every January and February we have at least one “freeze”. And those periods will seem forever. Before we know it the Farm Show will be here. And it invariably snows that week. There is always two periods of time. The Greek language described time at least two different ways. There will be the period where it flows forever. And then where everything happens in slow motion. All this at the same time.
Mar
12
2011
Even in NYC others want a connection with nature. I was visiting my friend there and I noted facing one window were all kinds of houseplants. Yes, you are surrounded by concrete pavements and buildings but others still desire that connection. Sure there are parks in the City. And they are well attended. I remember going to one nearby my friend. And huddled in one bush was a robin. I never had seen one in February before. It is so easy to feel divorced from the world God has created living in such a big city. It is just a little bit harder there but the popularity of houseplants indicate but (???) every person wants that connection. A world really never too far away. There is the wind, the sun, rain and even snow and even the ubiquitous pigeon that remind you there (???) nature is not too far away. It just seems that way sometimes.
Dec
16
2010
The Juniata River has ice floes flowing throughout it. It has been two weeks since it turned cold. There would have to be an Arctic freeze (under twenty degrees everyday) for two or three weeks in a row for the surface of the river to become solid. We are not there yet. We will see: there is still January and February to go. Meanwhile our heating bills will remain high, nevertheless.
Mar
1
2010
Spring was less than a hair away–less than three weeks. Perhaps by then all the snow will have melted. The snow seems as if it was on the ground forever. Though it was only February and now the bare spots are bigger.
In fact, the daffodils have already poked their their heads through the ground. I checked today. The primrose can’t be too far behind.
I know the temperatures will rise gradually. Before I know it, spring will arrive and all this cold weather will just be a memory.
In ten weeks I will take my annual camping trip with Chuck. Maybe even catch some more trout on the lake. Who knows?
Though, I am still bundling up–even in the house. I don’t like to be cold. Winter is still a reality but I am now anticipating spring already and the warmer weather. I know it will have arrived for good when I start wearing my tee shirts again.
Jan
30
2010
It is frigid outside: the bank said seventeen degrees. Spring can’t come fast enough. About six weeks to go officially. I am staying inside and enjoying our heated house. I do not want parts of me to break off in this cold. Or so it seems. I am definitely putting on my gloves next time I go out. It is just too cold today. And February still has to come. What a depressing thought.
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