February 21, 2005
Slush
The first half of January, we had weirdly warm weather.
Then we had three weeks of snow and bitter cold.
Then, for the last week, it's been weirdly warm again. Almost all of the snow has melted. (Dropping a month's worth of frozen dog crap on the sidewalk all at once. And filling all the potholes with dirty slush that cars can splash on you. As Tina Romano pointed out the other day, late winter is not the time to fall in love with Bucharest.)
Today was grey and foggy, but well above freezing. This morning we say the first pale green shoots poking tentatively out of the soil of the garden out front.
The blue Aegean: just 250 miles that way. Look in the other direction, around the corner of the Carpathians, and it's steppe all the way to Siberia.
There are some obvious metaphors, which are left as an exercise for the reader.
Posted by douglas at February 21, 2005 09:03 PM