Thursday, April 19


Don’t Blame Mother Nature
By Alex Carrier


Spring was here. I know I saw it – the colorful flowers, the green grass, birds building nests, people prodding green life from winter-brown lawns. Then, poof, it was gone with a freezing wind.

While cuddling up against the cold, I noticed a lot of chatter about how Mother Nature had tricked us and heard several none-too-kind words about the good lady.

Don’t blame Mother Nature. This is the work of that chilly curmudgeon Old Man Winter.

Oh, yeah, you’ve seen his work before. Frosted flowers shivering in their crystal cloaks. New buds bent and burned by cold.

Even animals are confused and seem to constantly check the timing of sunrise and sunset to reassure themselves spring is the season.

Spring season is, of course, locational. Our neighbors 30 minutes to the south in Charlottesville but a greater distance south in latitude always suffer spring a few weeks earlier than we do and enjoy fall a few weeks later.

Personally, I like cooler weather since you can comfortably snuggle up to your keyboard and work with little or no outside distraction. No longing to walk barefoot in new green grass or to lose yourself listening to romantic feathered Romeos tunefully tempting their mates.

But Old Man Winter, like all crusty curmudgeons, will go grumbling on his way. His dreary gray days will give way to color so intense it stains the sky and turns lawns into rivers of all hues imaginable. He’ll take his minion Jack Frost with him and the buds will not fear to stand straight and open their petals to the sun.

Mother Nature will sweep through our hollows and along the Blue Ridge Mountains and coax new life from every possible portion. We will remember why we love living here and will enjoy the warm days and cool nights only Spring can bestow.

Until Summer steams in.

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