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March 22, 2005
is April really the cruelest month?
Or so Eliot tells us. I'm not so sure. But they do say March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb. But if that's the case, why is April so cruel? Personally I don't see any lamb grazing around here. No grass to graze upon.
I think this Boston March has been cruel. First day of spring arrives and I was faced with a snow flurry on my way to work. Then today is a miraculous 53 degrees...the first time it has been this warm in months and months. And the rest of the week? Back down to the 40s. The snow is slowly slowly melting. Key word there--slowly.
I don't think all of it will be gone until well into April. We just had too much this year. And it keeps teasing us...melting a little, then turning cold again. Mother Nature is having a grand old time with us this year.
Boston had the 5th snowiest winter on record this year. So much so that they had to haul snow out of the city so it wouldn't clog up roadways. There is one such dumping ground (called snow "pahks") between my house and my gym. It's a side yard in a gravel pit and I saw them hauling truckloads of snow in and using a crane to pile up the highest dirty snow mountain I've ever seen. It won't melt until September I bet. This morning I drove by...couldn't see much snow, actually. Oh the mountain was still there but instead it was one huge butt-ugly dirt mound. Only if you saw them bringing the snow in would you realize that it was a pile of icedirt. BLECH!
But today, oh glorious day! I drove into Concord center with the sunroof open, windows down and my jacket off! I saw a robin! The first one yet for me this year. I can't tell you how happy I was about that. And today, on a conference call, one of my colleagues was telling me that she saw flowers in her neighbor's yard! Could it possibly be? I thought she had to be joking. Not one iota of green to be seen around my town.
But I've been waking up around 5:30 because it is light outside, so I know spring has nearly sprung. I just wish the coils would hurry up and unwind. I'm ready to usher old man winter back into his cold empty hole.
Posted by crystallyn at March 22, 2005 09:41 PM
Comments
Crystal,
You do know we are expecting 5-8 inches of snow today?
The flowers will come soon enough. Before you know it you will be having drinks on your back patio because your apartment is too hot.
Paulette
Posted by: Paulette at March 23, 2005 09:31 AM
Let me pretend!!!
Posted by: Crystal at March 23, 2005 05:48 PM
Those big snow mounds have always grossed me out. They're a necessary byproduct of getting things back to normal after so much snow, but I always think of them as big dirt- and trash-colored Shrinky Dinks. Ick.
Posted by: Sean at March 28, 2005 10:53 AM