April 28, 2007
Spring!
I think it's finally really spring here! It's gotten a lot warmer and all the trees are finally starting to bud and flower. I'm so glad there will be leaves again soon!
When I first moved up here I didn't think the longer winters would be a big deal. After all I love snow and cold just requires more clothes, right? I noticed after the first year or two that the longer winter did weird things to my perception of the trees. In Maryland I know that even during the end of winter, I could remember what the trees looked like with leaves. The lack of leaves felt temporary.
But here, winter is too long. By the time that spring rolls around something in my mind has forgotten what the world looks like with leaves. It's always a sort of surprise when they are finally back again. I mean it's not that I can't imagine leaves, but my default mental picture of the world has become all brown and gray and leafless.
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