“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
Happy first day of spring!
My friends and I went to the beach, as we do every first day of spring, to see the sunrise. The sky was spectacular colored as it was in the deepest pinks and reds in bands over the jetty. The low tide was lower than I can ever remember. The ocean was so still it could have been a lake on a warm summer morning. We heard seagulls squawking as they flew over. It was cold but bearable as there was no wind. The sand was rock hard as we neared the ocean. We watched the top arc of the sun appear over the rocks. It was huge and the brightest of yellows. We stayed until the sun had totally risen awing at its color and beauty and taking pictures all the while, but then the cold finally got to us. We went to the car where we sang our traditional welcoming songs to spring, Morning Has Broken and The Red, Red Robin. We finished our first day of spring festivities with breakfast and hot cups of coffee to warm the innards. It was a most wonderful morning.
I went back to bed for a couple of hours when I got home. When I woke up, the sky was grey and the sun had disappeared, probably exhausted from its spectacular entrance this morning. I thought how lucky I had been to see the sunrise and to see those colors framed by the blue sky and a few puffy clouds.
We will be having some snow tonight. It seems Old Man Winter is being recalcitrant and continuing to overstay his welcome. It is well past his time to pack up and leave, but he refuses and still lingers, cursed and unwanted. Leave, Old Man Winter, leave. Spring is here and welcomed with open arms.
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March 20, 2015 at 11:17 am
Hi Kat,
Happy Vernal Equinox. Your morning sounded beautiful. I need a First Day of Spring ritual.
I missed the sunrise as it was covered in clouds. Also I was probably still sleeping after the late night adventure of Piki Dog and the Chocolate Overdose. He seems fine after emergency veterinary attentions and much purging, voluntary and otherwise. When we got home around midnight he spent an hour hyperactively roaming the house looking for food and water which he could not have. Finally I put a leash on him and stuck my hand through the loop so he couldn’t go very far from the bed. He settled down and slept in. He remains unrepentant.
No more snow. I want to put the snowblower in the cellar and not think about it again until next February.
Enjoy the day.
March 20, 2015 at 12:09 pm
Hi Caryn,
Happy Spring!!
This ritual started with friends when I was working. We’d go down cape to Nauset and welcome the sun. After I retired, I didn’t do it for a while then I suggested to my friends that we start our own ritual, and we look forward to it every year. Some years are warm and we bring chairs and other years we wait in the car. Today was a mix of both.
Piki Dog does have his adventures. I’m glad he is fine though the process, while worth it, is most unpleasant. Of course, he was hungry. I’m glad he settled down and went to sleep. One of my dogs, Shauna, ate all the Easter candy I had bought for my nephews. One of the cats opened the sliding closet door. Shauna was none the worse for wear. The vet said Shauna was big enough that the chocolate had little effect. As for me, I had that vet bill and had to buy more chocolate! I doubt Shauna was reptant either.
Have a wonderful first day of spring and let’s hope they’ll be no need for that snowblower.
March 20, 2015 at 12:01 pm
Your spring welcome sounds great. Old man winter is probably hearing impaired, perhaps he couldn’t hear you singing inside the car?
No luck for us this morning, we missed the solar eclipse due to a thick fog layer above us, no sun at all – just ~50 shades of gray. Thanks to internet I watched the total eclipse on Norwegian TV livestream. In 1999 I drove southwards to France to see it live, a great experience but also a horrific car trip because apparently the complete northern half of the nation was on the road back then to see the total eclipse and not just a partial eclipse.
I hope Christer had better luck this morning.
March 20, 2015 at 12:14 pm
Birgit,
I think Old Man Winter is totally deaf and cares little about our curses.
I’m sorry you missed the eclipse. I remember the last one we saw, and how exciting it was. I guess the internet is better than totally missing it.
I was so happy I’d gotten up early as today has turned grey and ugly. Late risers have no idea what beauty they missed this morning.
Happy spring, Birgit!
March 20, 2015 at 3:34 pm
D.C. had snow around sunrise. Luckily spring doesn’t officially arrive until this evening, and I think our wintry mix has finally ended. Hopefully for the next eight months or so.
I am not a morning person, but sometimes (far less often than I used to) I see the sunrise from the other side of it. That said, we recently returned from a trip to Budapest where we, at the recommendation of someone who’d grown up there, got up in the wee smalls and journeyed to the Citadella to catch the sun rising over the city. I’m glad we did it, but, man, was I dragging for the rest of the day.
March 20, 2015 at 6:45 pm
sprite,
Right now it is snowing. The branches have a layer of snow, and the ugly black snow on the sides is covered in white.
I used to get up at 5 every day for work and I’d leave the house by 6:20. I saw many sunrises but often didn’t take time to notice. Now I’m usually asleep unless I’m traveling or it is the first day of spring.
I napped when I got home!
March 20, 2015 at 3:50 pm
I do like that tradition of Yours!
We were going to have an 85% solar eclipse here today and I was walking back from the neighbor factory at the right time but the sky was too cloudy. I told a working friend that it was so annoying because a few days ago I missed the northern lights because of clouds and today the eclipse. He really didn’t care about the eclipse but walked out anyway and, this is so typical! just as he looked up to the sky the clouds got so thin that he saw it!!! He was kind enough to photograph it for me though 🙂
The westher predictions for today was soo wrong, instead of snow and rain and very low temperatures we got 50F and also some sun in the afternoon 🙂 I do hope they are wrong about the temperatures tomorrow too 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
March 20, 2015 at 6:52 pm
Thanks, Christer.
We really look forward to this day. It is the start of the best parts of the year.
We weren’t to see the eclipse, but I was wishing you would. What luck your friend had. It happens to me every summer when it is meteor time, and the sky is usually cloudy. I haven’t seen the Leonids in four or five years.
It is snowing. We’re getting 1-3 inches. Enough should be enough!!
Have a wonderful evening.
March 20, 2015 at 8:09 pm
If the weather was that cold at the beach I would have welcomed the season from the car. 🙂 Here Spring came in quietly with an on and off again steady rain. I’m sure that before the heat of summer arrives we will have had several bouts with thunderstorms, hail and the possibility of tornadoes. We are after all at the southern end of tornado alley.
Unfortunately, winter didn’t get the word that the sun had crossed the equator and New England will get at least one more snow.
March 20, 2015 at 8:11 pm
Bob,
There was no wind so the chill was bearable, and the beauty was far lovelier outside than in the car.
We have some snow falling-not much, maybe 3 inches. What a way to welcome in spring!
I think we’ll get more than this little snow shower. One year it even snowed in April!
March 20, 2015 at 9:57 pm
I guess it’s all perspective. Three inches of snow here and all the schools close, most folks stay home and everything shuts down.
March 20, 2015 at 10:01 pm
Bob,
With 3 inches of snow, we don’t even shovel or plow. It is at best a minor annoyance.