A brief glimpse of spring
Apr. 25th, 2011 07:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaunthieIt's been an unusually cool and wet spring this year in my little corner of the world. Just to give you an idea, there are *still* daffodils blooming their heads off everywhere, and the tulips are only now really starting to kick into high gear. Yeah. So perhaps unsurprisingly, I'm still pretty far behind on my veggie garden planting, not to mention my flower garden and general yard work. And a vast majority of the local citizenry has been complaining more or less nonstop about how they're just about ready to KILL for some sunshine
Saturday was that day.
GLORIOUS sunshine. The kind of spring day that reminds you (if you have any doubt, which I don't and never have) that this is in fact one of the most beautiful places in the world to live. It was warm. All the mountains were out. The trees and plants suddenly woke up, said "OMG, what have we been waiting for?" and started leafing out like mad. Needless to say, I got out into my garden and did some serious work before heading to Jake's place to work in her garden (it was her turn this weekend, and we got a ton done) We staged a raid on the local nursery, which of course was jammed with people all caught up in it's-finally-garden-weather! fever.
It also brought out a very bad case of the local phenomenon known as "sunshine stupid" drivers. It happens every year to some degree, but this spring appears to have prompted a particuarly bad and egregious case of it. Driving on Saturday was a serious hazard to your health. I lost track of how many oblivious drivers I encountered. There were the dawdlin' daisies, idling along at five to fifteen miles below the speed limit, completely clueless to the traffic jams they were causing. There were the dazzled drifters, who kept losing track of lane placement while gawking at the bright yellow thing in the sky. There were a LOT of sunshine streakers, who absoluetly HAD to get wherever they were going as soon as possible so that they could enjoy some rays - and were apparently too enraptured by said rays to pay any attention whatsoever to other drivers on the road. And there were a truly dismaying number of pull-out poppers, people who just come sailing out of driveways and parking lots and other roads directly in front of oncoming traffic without every bothering to LOOK.
Honestly, I was as glad as anyone else to see the nice weather, but by the time I'd made it safely home from Jake's place, I was ready for the weather to go back to being crappy, if it meant that I could drive without feeling like I was taking my life into my own hands just by being on the road with all these sunlight-drunk folks.
And indeed, on Sunday, spring reverted to its murky grey, rainy, cool self. Which meant that I did not get anything more done in the yard this weekend, but at least it was a little less crazy on the road. Only a little, as it was Sunday, and Easter to boot, but every little bit helps.
I still hope for some decent weather soon. I just hope that the next time the sun comes out, it does so gradually, and gives people time to adjust. ;-)
Saturday was that day.
GLORIOUS sunshine. The kind of spring day that reminds you (if you have any doubt, which I don't and never have) that this is in fact one of the most beautiful places in the world to live. It was warm. All the mountains were out. The trees and plants suddenly woke up, said "OMG, what have we been waiting for?" and started leafing out like mad. Needless to say, I got out into my garden and did some serious work before heading to Jake's place to work in her garden (it was her turn this weekend, and we got a ton done) We staged a raid on the local nursery, which of course was jammed with people all caught up in it's-finally-garden-weather! fever.
It also brought out a very bad case of the local phenomenon known as "sunshine stupid" drivers. It happens every year to some degree, but this spring appears to have prompted a particuarly bad and egregious case of it. Driving on Saturday was a serious hazard to your health. I lost track of how many oblivious drivers I encountered. There were the dawdlin' daisies, idling along at five to fifteen miles below the speed limit, completely clueless to the traffic jams they were causing. There were the dazzled drifters, who kept losing track of lane placement while gawking at the bright yellow thing in the sky. There were a LOT of sunshine streakers, who absoluetly HAD to get wherever they were going as soon as possible so that they could enjoy some rays - and were apparently too enraptured by said rays to pay any attention whatsoever to other drivers on the road. And there were a truly dismaying number of pull-out poppers, people who just come sailing out of driveways and parking lots and other roads directly in front of oncoming traffic without every bothering to LOOK.
Honestly, I was as glad as anyone else to see the nice weather, but by the time I'd made it safely home from Jake's place, I was ready for the weather to go back to being crappy, if it meant that I could drive without feeling like I was taking my life into my own hands just by being on the road with all these sunlight-drunk folks.
And indeed, on Sunday, spring reverted to its murky grey, rainy, cool self. Which meant that I did not get anything more done in the yard this weekend, but at least it was a little less crazy on the road. Only a little, as it was Sunday, and Easter to boot, but every little bit helps.
I still hope for some decent weather soon. I just hope that the next time the sun comes out, it does so gradually, and gives people time to adjust. ;-)
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Date: 2011-04-26 11:51 pm (UTC)