You've seen this picture before in my posts here at different times of the year. You can see the change in snow depth and the fact the water is opening up but there are so many things a picture can't show. It can't show the feeling of spring's gentle breezes on your skin. It can't show the scent of melting snow, wet wood and new growth. It can't show many of the tiny flashes of green I see now when hiking. They are still tiny flecks and spots, teasing the eye. Slowly this whole picture will change with time. The willows will leaf out, the grass will grow up over the dead brown left-overs from the winter. The flickering shadows that indicate fish aren't showing yet but they will as the water gets higher. Flowers will appear and the day lily, wild snapdragon and columbines will make this a lovely place to walk. I have a cold today, high fever and the resulting weirdness that diabetics get when dealing with an infection and medication. There's a halo of dark blue, red and neon blue that outlines everything I look at. This walk will be short but I find the fever vision makes it a memorable one. Each flower, each bird, each bud on the trees represents a victory over harsh winter. Every walk up here in the time of spring is a celebration of life.
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Aside from enjoying the pictures and stories, I love reading your blog for the alternating ease/difficulty in reading the text. You got blind person big font and squint so you can see it font. It's the bomb!
Feeling any better?
Sometimes the font changes in the middle of writing it. I don't know until I publish it as it looks fine to me until then. Somedays I can not get the large font to work, somedays only the ginormous font works. It's a mystery! Joey was looking at myspace for me as the code everyone else has on their profile is missing on mine. That may be a mac thing though.
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