One thing's for sure: when spring gets here, I'm going to be ready! We had one precious day last week that reached 60 degrees. I was sure spring was on its way . . . but I didn't want to take any chances. I promptly got my boys ready and took them outside for a nature walk. As we walked, I told Henry we were on a mission to find "signs of spring." I was just sure we were going to discover all sorts of little buds and blossoms, if not tacky Easter decorations that we could call "signs of spring." Unfortunately, I was wrong altogether! We actually did see one tree with a few early buds growing and probably about twenty total blades of green grass (or were those moss-covered blades of yellow grass?), but that's about it. We saw more "signs of Christmas" than anything else (I think I counted 30 Christmas wreaths! THIRTY!).
Henry kept asking, "Mommy, what are those signs you were talking about?" He is really into road signs right now and constantly points out, "I saw a no U-turn sign!," "I saw a 'do not enter' sign!," and my favorite: "I saw a John Deere sign!" (a deer crossing sign). So I took about five minutes of our walk trying to explain that some signs are not actually big pictures stuck on poles sticking out of the ground, but some signs can just be symbols of something great, like spring, and those signs are little things like leaves growing, birds chirping, and people rolling their car windows down. Unfortunately, this explanation didn't make any sense to a 3 year-old (it probably didn't make sense to you either), and Mother Nature didn't feel like helping me out
with any concrete examples. We gave up on looking for signs of spring and decided it would be lots more fun to name the make and model of EVERY vehicle we walked past ("Toyota" is no longer an acceptable answer. "Toyota what?").
Alas, I was probably jumping the gun by getting a little hopeful about spring. Perhaps there were no signs of spring because it ISN'T spring yet, a fact of which I was reminded when yet another giant snowstorm hit (pictured above) just a few days later. So folks, if you're hoping to find signs of spring in the first week of March, you'd better look somewhere other than Boston, MA. Do I dare start hoping for April?
5 comments:
Very nice Jenn. I totally understood what you mean about signs vs. signs. Too bad Henry didn't yet. Soon he will, when those blades of green grass start popping up. I hear you are buried up to your necks in snow. Maybe it's time to consider coming to visit Tucson. We hit 90 last week. Dan-o
p.s. It was a Toyota Corolla. That's what.
Sorry you don't have "signs" yet! I won't rub it in then that I see an end in sight here! I've got most of my bulbs coming up....some are about 3" tall!! :) Yeah! However, the news has some news of snow headed our way soon. :(
jenn, i will take some signs of spring pictures for you as we are seeing them everywhere. however my children are insisting we needed more snow. :)
Living in Houston I forget that winter lasts until late March or after in the northern US. Here we have leaves coming out and wild flowers blooming and lots and lots of birds. I hope spring reaches you soon and if not come to Texas its definately here. (sorry if I made you jealous).
I'm here to mourn the absence of Spring with you Jen. I prefer to pretend that everyone is buried in snow like we are! :) But...I do think we can hope for spring signs in April!
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