Spring sprang

Oh, my gosh...spring sprang in Erie. Well, only for the day, but it’s Erie...we’ll take it. I just had the dogs out for their second walk of the day. The great mounds of snow are melting–you can hear the water running down the streets and spilling into the sewers. You can hear it dripping from roofs, as the ice melts. You can even hear it as thirteen-pound Ella, who’s never met a puddle she doesn’t like, bunny-hops smack in the center. Which explains why she’s come home looking more like a drowned white rat than a labradoodle.

People in Erie really make the best of these prelude to spring days. We saw a dad pushing a baby in her stroller, three joggers and an older couple holding hands as they walked along, dodging puddles and enjoying the warmth.

I got home and slid the storm window down on the door and rolled the screen in place. My house smells like wet earth, wet dogs and temperatures above freezing. Okay, so maybe you didn’t realize that temperatures-above-freezing had a smell, but it does. Of course, it smells remarkably like wet dog and wet earth, but there’s a little something extra mixed in that say, winter will end eventually. And oh, I need to hear that, because tomorrow winter reasserts itself. But today is a reminder that soon, winter will retreat for a few months and my lilacs and forsythia will bloom. My dh will put in the garden. There will be walks at the peninsula, and grilling in the backyard....yes, it’s all around the corner.

So, when spring has sprung wherever you life, what are you looking forward to the most??  For me, it's a sunset on the peninsula!! 

Holly

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