Short Days, Long Days

Knock-Out Rose at sunset

Until yesterday, it literally had been MONTHS since I had even looked at the blog. I found this picture sitting in my draft folder. It was taken back in the fall when the days were short and the shadows were long. Isn't it sweet?

My rose bush looks pretty dead at the moment but I'm happy to report dafffodil buds which will be opening any day now. This past winter was the first time I realized that the longest days and darkest nights really do come and go so quickly, before Christmas. So when we all have the winter humdrums, we really are getting longer days and more sunshine each day despite the fact that it still seems so gray.

Anyhow, here's to a new spring and soon-to-be-green-again rose bush.

How strange this weather has been

Thanks to Hurricane Sandy, we've had at least four inches of rain in the past 48 hours. We don't know how many for certain because the rain gauge iced over at some point in the night. We were told (though everyone around us was getting snow) that we would get terrible wind and lots of rain. I walked around in a daze last night, as if the constant drumming of the rain had hypnotized me. As the night grew darker, the silence came.You know, the sound of snow.

I am absolutely delighted by snow.

I am one of those people that thinks that driving out and about after a good snow is a WONDERFUL idea - yeah, the lapse in judgement is profound - because you have to get out there and see the world all covered up before it gets all drippy and footprint-ed.

Despite groaning of many a student, the university was open this morning and its back to work like normal.And still, I am absolutely delighted by snow.