Thursday, April 2, 2015

Brownish to Greenish…..

March was pretty awful around here. Just cold and windy and nothing "spring-is-coming" about it. Sort of frustrating and gloomy. Our daughter, who is very well spoken and usually quite optimistic posted a comment on Facebook on March 28th saying something like "March you have three days to get your shit together and GO OUT like a LAMB!" Again, this was not the way she usually expresses herself.

But it worked! The last two days of March were really quite nice, wind died down, sun came out and the temperatures were acceptable. Today it really seems like Wisconsin's spring is just about ready to burst upon the scene. The grey, brown, dead yellow grasses along the bike path are just now starting to show a hint of green. The grass too…it's trying! Trees show tiny shots of green buds just beginning to peek out on the branches. And the pile of dirty black snirt that is piled in the corner of the condo's parking lot is just about gone. Pairs of ducks and geese are cruising the water along the edge of the lake and looking for good nesting spots. Robins are everywhere.

Today Fenway and I took our longest walk in quite awhile - along the marina and all the way around Coal Dock Park before heading home. Just now, looking out the window toward the bike path I see a young father pushing a baby carriage. He's jogging with his dog's leash in one hand and steering the stroller with the other….and he's in shorts! Yea!

I think we'll clean off our bikes tomorrow and see if we can remember how to use them.

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