Dec
30
2015
Winter is a week in. Still no extended freezes. An abnormally warm Fall. That means Spring might come sooner unless we get cold in the early Spring. The countdown has begun (to Spring). I’d hibernate but I don’t have that option.
May
11
2015
Spring went straight into summer. I was gone a week. I know summer still has five weeks to go but that is the way it seemed. The big lilac bush bloomed while I was gone. There was new growth all over the place. All this in a week. I noticed the two patio tomato plants grew quite a bit. I still have not carefully inspected the garden. I am sure there are other changes. It has become the time of year I just wear tee shirts and shorts. Pretty soon I will be putting back the air conditioner in the bedroom. We discarded the thick blanket and the fan ran all night.
Dec
31
2013
We are in the second week of winter now. I will forget about the countdown sometimes. Other times I will do the math. It is a game for me. We are in for some frigid temperatures. Single teens. I am wondering whether we will face any big snow storms. We will see. We are in the middle of winter. There is no doubt about it now. My periodic countdown is a way I have of marking the end of that season and awaiting spring. As you can tell I am not too thrilled with the cold weather. I just bear it and make sure I am properly dressed for the day.
Nov
8
2013
I just wanted to be in. I dashed out for a quick errand and noted the temperature outside was forty degrees according to my car thermometer. The clouds were stormy and dark–snow clouds. I guess the cold weather is here for good. All I want to do is hibernate and only go out when it is necessary. Next spring and summer seems an eternity away.
Mar
27
2013
The purple crocuses are still blooming. They last a long time although they are not open the whole day depending on the daylight. The yellow primrose are the only other flowers blooming. For the second year in a row they made it through the whole winter. I checked on our daffodils. They are not blooming yet. Other flowers are coming up like the hyacinth and tulip and I am sure there will be others. It is exciting to walk around our land and see what is coming next. I once had a teacher who had lived in Hawaii and did not understand what spring meant to others until she moved here. Spring is always an reawakening of the earth here.
Mar
21
2013
It was the second day of spring but it felt like winter. I checked the car thermometer and it registered 27 degrees. Brr! Nevertheless the daffodils are still coming up as well as other flowers like the lilies and tulips. Maybe in two weeks it will act as spring. I checked the ten day forecast and the temperatures each day were still low.
Mar
6
2013
Still no appreciable snowfall. It is March sixth. We were supposed to get a few inches of snow last night but nothing happened. Will we go through the whole winter and not get one snowfall greater than an inch or two. Spring is now fourteen days away. I still remember the winter snow lay on the ground for months (1996). It did not happen this year.
Jan
15
2013
I got the winter blues. It is not unbearably cold and we only had two minor snow storms. Nevertheless, I don’t want to be here but I am and don’t know what to do with myself. 
I will go out (???) do a little shopping just to go out and go to the library. Maybe, my depression will lift a bit. Winter has just started. And spring is still too far away to begin a countdown. I will just bear it.
Dec
31
2012
All of a sudden I felt old. I was at an open mike of a coffeehouse. A performer did a song of Bob Dylan’s. I no longer remember the title but someone went up to the performer and told him it was great you were doing Dylan’s material and his material was not forgotten. Suddenly I realized the song he did was fifty years old. Dylan wrote one great song after another during that period. The songs were a rallying point for the sixties civil (???) movement. Maybe they will be discovered anew if the climate of our nation changes. Those sixties songs captured a generation. And are there for subsequent generations to discover.
Oct
2
2012
The birds can come and go this afternoon. I will peek out my large living room window and watch them. I do not have to be anywhere today any longer. I can keep peering out the window and see who comes along. It really does not matter. I do not have to do any thing the next two hours but listen to music–my favorite activity. I am still waiting to see my first red bellied woodpecker since I started putting out suet cakes again several weeks ago.
Mar
1
2012
The Canada geese are coming back. I heard honking and looked up at the sky. The geese were flying in a V shaped pattern with the left side considerably shorter. There must have been at least seventy geese in the flock. They were heading for Lake Huron–a small acre sized body of water. They are an harbinger of spring. Earlier we noted the row of tulips were coming up. It will be a surprise what colors they are. No one seems to remember what the package indicated. More and more greenery is coming up. There are surprises every day.
Feb
27
2012
The only thing I saw on the River was the ubiquitous gull. I crossed the busy highway to take a closer view of the River but that was all I saw. With a little luck I thought I might spot one of the bald eagles who nest on the opposite mountain. Not this time. I keep looking for them but I never have seen them in the vicinity.
Later on I might occasionally spot a snowy or great egret on the fringes of the nearby islands. It is still too early in the season for that. I just wanted to view the expanse of the River. There were many gulls but that was about it. They could be found here year around.
Later on I will walk around my land and see what plants are starting to come out of the ground. The daffodils, of course, are five or six inches tall. I am wondering whether any of the row of tulips planted last year will come up. There are always surprises. Spring is now three weeks and some days away. We will see what comes up.
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