Nice Day

Shabbat Shalom!
Winter is loosening the grip, and Spring is wooing us, even if prematurely.

It is a nice day.

You know, one of the first days on which we can open the windows, and smell the fresh air, coming to us on the south winds.

The sky has taken on that spring-like robin's egg blue, so that we know the real eggs are not too far in the offing now.

It's a strange contrast of a day.

One on which it's good to be outside, and the sun feels warm on the rock, but the snow lingers in patches, not quite worn out from the warmth.

The solar angle is rising,

so that the length of the shadows and the length of the day fortell the coming of real Spring, and beyond.

It's a good day.

A day to sit out on the porch and read for the first time this year, and listen to the breeze, so recently cold and hard, but now warm and soft, as it sweeps through the tree tops.

But it's early yet. A body still needs a wool shirt to protect against just a bit of chill on that south wind.

It's a nice day!

I wish I could post the smell and feel of the wind, and the warmth of the sun.

But all I can post are these pictures,

tantalizing hints of the Spring to come, though they are, they do not completely convey the niceness of this day.

It's a really, really nice day! Sixty degrees, soft winds, golden sun, blue sky.

We might say that March is coming in to 2008 like a lamb.

Except it's supposed to snow tomorrow night.

So it's just a bit too early to say that Spring has sprung!

But it does seem as if Spring is tensing the coils, gathering the energy, and demonstrating her potential to Spring out fully, later.