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Contemplate The Beauty

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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

– Rachel Carson, Sense of Wonder

Welcome to Spring.

Yesterday was the official first day but I refused to celebrate it since the season didn’t actually begin until 11:06 p.m. So I decided to wait until today. There is indeed something healing in the refrains of nature and in the natural cycles that let us know there is an order of things and even the darkest of days will be ok.

Today will be 51 degrees and windy with sun and clouds here in southern Ohio. If the last few days are any indication, the bird feeders will be packed and there will be more new things to notice around the yard as Mother Nature breathes fresh left into our surroundings.

I hope to take a lunch break and to spend some time doing a small chore or two outside. Doesn’t that sound wonderful? Even if you can’t spend time outside, contemplate the beauty of this season and you’ll be better for it. 

Happy Spring, friends! 

PS: The photo above is a prolific forsythia in my parents’ yard. Isn’t it beautiful?

In Like A Lamb

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Appalachian people hold closely the old wive’s tale that when March comes in like a lion it will go out like a lamb. So if the weather is bad on the first, it should be mild on the 31st. Here in southern Ohio, March arrived gentle as a newborn lamb so we assume that the month will go roaring out.

Another superstition tells us that it will snow three times on the forsythia bloom.Well, it was 75 degrees and sunny for the forsythia bloom yesterday. The evening ended with a thunderstorm. No snow in sight.

Will we see snow this month? Will this fool’s spring succumb to cold and snow when the real spring should be arriving?

Probably so and I’m sorry for that. As much as I enjoy winter with its cold and snow, I’m always ready for spring by early March. Anything different feels like regression and that sounds terrible.

Forsythia

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Some people call it Easter Tree but I just call it forsythia. This pretty shrub with yellow flowers shaped like bells is one of my favorite aspects of spring.

There’s an old wive’s tale that says there will be three more snows after the forsythia blooms. Sometimes that’s true and sometimes it’s not. It is Ohio after all, so we could have flurries, a blizzard or record high heat. It’s hard to tell!

What we do know for sure is that all the yellow of daffodils and forsythia dress up the landscape and make it feel like spring!