As I sit and ponder the day, I take a quick glance now and then out my dining room window; the fishbowl window of the house. It is a big two-pane mass of glass that takes up most of the wall on that side of the room. It has no curtains, lets in enough light to warrant wearing sunglasses as I type, and is my general glimpse into the outside world and the comings and goings of my neighbourhood.
It is a view I normally relish in due to our rather large yard for a suburban community in a small town, but today I frown. How exactly did there get to be that much snow? The red barn bird feeder is normally at about chest height and the top of the fence is over my head. Will spring ever arrive in one swift zephyr and shoo away the deep freeze we have been in for weeks?
In my haste to have spring at my doorstep I have started my "spring cleaning" early with I giant purge of useless stuff and a re-organization of pretty much everything in the house. One of my favourite places to arrange is the small shelf above my front foyer closet. It is the sole location in our entire mini-mansion (it's a mansion to us) that I can place items of my choice exactly so, and they never move. A daily awe-inspiring view in a household of constant rotation of stuff.
During this great migration of belongings into garbage bags over the past couple of weeks, I located this spring's seed catalogue. Hooray! Something to clear away the blues for a moment or two while I dream about what my garden will teach me this year. "Be patient and wait," it whispers in a soft voice from under four feet of drifted snow. "After all, you have no control of such things anyway," it reminds me. But, but, but... >>sigh<< So true. But look at those darling violas! I could sprinkle their seeds everywhere and never get tired of them! Can't it be spring now?
And just when it seems like nothing will ever melt, I open the front door and can actually go outside without my "700-proof, good-to-minus 50°C" winter jacket. I am not holding my breath that this day will be soon, but I know it is on the horizon. Already the days seem to be getting longer, I can have my Thursday morning tea at 7:30am in daylight instead of waiting for an hour for the sun to wax over the horizon.
Let's see... It's the beginning of March now, so.... Only three more months until spring!
Happy dreaming!
Heather
5 comments:
oh~!~i know how you feel.
for the last two days we've had temps in the lower 50's but last friday it was snowing HUGE beautiful snowflakes all day long and by saturday morning we had around six inches. prior to that i could just see my crocus tipping up out of the ground and i bet if i went out and looked today the snow has melted back enough for me to see them again but oh my goodness they have more patience then i do~!!~
i've decided that some spring decorating might help just a bit but have yet to muster up the ambition to actually do it until now. your post has inspired me to just change out a few things and see if i can invite the sunshine to play for a tiny bit longer than it did yesterday . . . and so goes the season of Spring.
hang in there.
;-)
libbyQ
Wow! what an amazing viewof your yard! it does look coooold!!! I can imagine you getting a bit cabin feverish, but the season will change in it's own sweet time!!! and Spring will arrive as we are awaiting Autumn!!!
I love your decorating in a space that could easily be forgotten, very homely, nicely done!!!
I feel for those who are snowbound. Spring is starting here in the desert, but it means that the scorching heat is like your Spring, just 3 months away. I dream of my summer garden in the cooler mountains.
Hang in there!
Well, my dear Heather, take heart, I will arrived in um .....6 sleeps and I promise that on the wings of my West Jet plane I will bring warmer temperatures and lots of sunshine, Just like we are having here in Ontary-ary ariio. :>). This really isn't a difficult promise to make because anything that I bring will probably be warmer than what you have been having there in Alberta lately. Right now it is raining and going to rain most of the weekend which is fine by me, you don't have to shovel rain. It has to be warm to rain and the spring flowers love the water. Bonus all around. 6 sleeps woohooo!!!
It is still very wintery here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but my day was quite summery and happy when I opened the envelope from you with all the wonderful "orphaned postcards"! Thank you very much. Proper thank you going out tomorrow :-)
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