Nature's Renaissance
I’m obsessed with Boston in the springtime! On the good days the skies are as blue as Caribbean waves and the sun’s rays fill happy passers-by with smiles while pouring color onto Boston’s eclectic architecture. Tulips and daffodils dance together in the wind and when the leaves start to grow, endless shades of green cover their branches. Even neon tones come out in the leaves’ earliest days, adding to the already-heightened feelings of a fantasy land. Curiously, the sidewalks are more crammed than in the prior months, for Bostonians are emerging from their winter hibernations and make their ways to the streets. And on exceptional spring days in Boston - much like today - temperatures reach 80 degrees in the afternoon and cool down to a comfortable 65 in the evening. Truly the perfect weather for barbecuing a juicy steak! Since the weather has been so nice I have been spending many of my lunch hours in the Public Gardens stretched out on the grass, soaking in the sun, and watching the Swan Boats drift by. People, including myself, love Boston because we really do experience every season to the max, but Spring is especially wonderful because we finally get a break from Winter’s gloom. It’s needless to say that this weather makes me feel nothing less than pure joy.
But many others aren’t so fortunate. Horrible weather has been a theme for the past few years and this year Americans have already suffered from devastating tornadoes, powerful floods, and wildfires are spreading like, well, wildfires in many states. The hurricane season is soon coming, too, and if it’s as fierce as the experts predict then we could be facing even more destruction. I keep my thoughts with everyone who has been/is/might face Mother Nature’s wrath.
In the meantime I will soak up this weather for as long as I can. Mark Twain was right when he said, “In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of twenty-four hours.” These conditions really might be fleeting and tomorrow could be 80 degrees or 40. That’s just life up here. (The weather reports say we’ll get some more of this Eden for awhile, though.) It keeps me feeling upbeat and positive and I’m going to savor it for as long as I possibly can.
But many others aren’t so fortunate. Horrible weather has been a theme for the past few years and this year Americans have already suffered from devastating tornadoes, powerful floods, and wildfires are spreading like, well, wildfires in many states. The hurricane season is soon coming, too, and if it’s as fierce as the experts predict then we could be facing even more destruction. I keep my thoughts with everyone who has been/is/might face Mother Nature’s wrath.
In the meantime I will soak up this weather for as long as I can. Mark Twain was right when he said, “In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of twenty-four hours.” These conditions really might be fleeting and tomorrow could be 80 degrees or 40. That’s just life up here. (The weather reports say we’ll get some more of this Eden for awhile, though.) It keeps me feeling upbeat and positive and I’m going to savor it for as long as I possibly can.