We did have a new bird come to our suet feeder–an hairy woodpecker. An hairy woodpecker looks just like a downy but bigger. We have seen them before but not recently. We got more snow last night. In fact, it was still snowing when I awoke. Spring is less than two weeks away. We have had snow on the ground for months. We are soon going in a spell (eight days) when it will be in the forties every day and even in the fifties one or two days. I wonder whether all the snow will melt during that period. We will see.
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Spring was less than five weeks away. I started my countdown. It was close enough to it. I do this every year. It is a little game I play. I am waiting for the warmer weather. The spring. The blackberries and raspberries I pick. My annual camping trip I take in May with my buddy. The explosion of life. The first flowers — daffodils. Everything. Every year I have a countdown. The winter that passes me and I endure just makes spring that much sweeter. Right now there is quite a bit of snow on the ground. I know in less than six weeks it will be all gone and the daily temperatures will gradually rise. My countdown is my anticipation of spring and what follows.
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Spring is now four weeks minus one day away. Now it is cold and snow still lingers on the ground. Before we know it the first daffodils and primrose will come up and then the warm weather will start. This cold will be a distant memory. I am looking forward to picking the raspberries on my property and then my blackberries in July. And before we know it autumn will come again and the cycle will start all over again. Time seems to have two cycles at the same time. One turns very slowly and the others speeds all the time. Time is a vapor as the Bible says.
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