Spring, trying to arrive

azaleas

“With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. Sometimes the heavy cold rains would beat it back so that it would seem that it would never come and that you were losing a season out of your life. This was the only truly sad time in Paris because it was unnatural. You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.

In those days, though, the spring always came finally but it was frightening that it had nearly failed.”

— A Moveable Feast

Just a couple of days back, I noticed how the azaleas next to my driveway were budding, and even blooming in some places. Below, you see a tree blooming in my backyard.

Anyway, I wonder if it’s going to last, or is this like the false springs in Paris that Hemingway wrote of? If the latter, it will be a shame, but I won’t take it as hard as he did. I don’t see the fall the way he did, either. I feel like things are coming alive when the leaves turn and the air turns brisk.

One thing I really don’t like about the spring, especially this one. I really resent that I’ll be robbed of an hour tonight. I don’t like anything about Daylight Savings Time, and it really bugs me that it’s taking up more and more of the year…

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One thought on “Spring, trying to arrive

  1. Kathryn Fenner

    With the freaky weather we have been having, there were regular azaleas in bloom in January…..

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