spring?

We have walked most nights since the rainy walk.

We usually take a couple nights of for the weekends. Usually we leave just about sun down and get home in deep dusk. Miriam walks slower than I would like, so I carry a backpack with about 15# of books. We dress warm and if it were to rain we would be passably comfortable.

O another forum (teardrop) the question was asked about signs of spring. Most answers had something to do with when the robins returned. We often have robins all winter, but I have not seen any big fat ones yet.

We have ferrel cats around here, so t his place, with all of it’s trees and brush which should be a sanctuary for birds, is not, I regret.

One night last week we were just a bit earlier. The temperature was about 40. We walk out our back, across our garden area, down the ditch bank, over the canal on a foot bridge, another block north and almost a mile pretty well straight east.

Half way through that east leg we get onto the high school parking lot and then on to their sports field. As we passed the soccer field (which is next to the high school but is not a part of the high school) There were two sessions going on. These were little guys, maybe 8 or 9, and they were going at it with the coaches doing a lot of arm waving.

A hundred yards further and we were at the baseball complex (4 or 5 diamonds together). There a team, in full uniform, were grooming the field. There aren’t any lights on that field and it was almost dark, but they were going right at it.

Not too many nights later, and not a bit warmer, We met a 30ish guy wearing a baseball uniform (under his warm coat). I asked him if there had been a game. He smiled and said; “yes, and we won 1 to nothing.”

We were warm in our coats, hats and mittens, but it seemed so surrealistic to see those little guys playing soccer and the big guys baseball when we were working just to stay warm.

It has to be a sign of spring. It always seemed to me that spring really was when the girls started wearing tank tops That has not happened yet.

But spring is coming. Today is predicted to be in the mid 50’s and that friends is spring.


This is from Lora. It was a letter sent to me. I asked her if I could repeat it on my blog, she rewrote it a bit and sent it back.