Approximately spring
Mar. 22nd, 2018 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustThe vernal equinox, for reasons of its own, fell on March 20th this year: the day, Tuesday last, didn't deign to notice.
Yesterday dawned bright and full of promise:durham_rambler had an engagement in Stanhope - a funeral, which is not particularly springlike, but I went along anyway, for the ride. We called for M., to give her a lift, and I admired the striped tulips in her front garden - but by now the sun had gone in, and it stayed in for the rest of the day. The fields along Weardale were still outlined in white, where the snow still lay in the shadow of the hedges; there were lambs in one of two of them, but they were very subdued, not gambolling at all. The walls were bursting into bloom along the High Street in Stanhope:
and that was probably the most springlike thing I saw. The skies just got darker and darker, until I was sure it was going to snow again.
But it didn't. The rain caught us later in the evening, between a meeting and the Elm Tree, and cold rain it was too, but it wasn't snow. Today's sunshine was longer lasting, and even felt warm. Tomorrow, who knows? But I'm hopeful.
Yesterday dawned bright and full of promise:
durham_rambler had an engagement in Stanhope - a funeral, which is not particularly springlike, but I went along anyway, for the ride. We called for M., to give her a lift, and I admired the striped tulips in her front garden - but by now the sun had gone in, and it stayed in for the rest of the day. The fields along Weardale were still outlined in white, where the snow still lay in the shadow of the hedges; there were lambs in one of two of them, but they were very subdued, not gambolling at all. The walls were bursting into bloom along the High Street in Stanhope:and that was probably the most springlike thing I saw. The skies just got darker and darker, until I was sure it was going to snow again.
But it didn't. The rain caught us later in the evening, between a meeting and the Elm Tree, and cold rain it was too, but it wasn't snow. Today's sunshine was longer lasting, and even felt warm. Tomorrow, who knows? But I'm hopeful.
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Date: 2018-03-22 10:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-23 10:02 am (UTC)I know we have nothing to complain about when it comes to snow, here in England! Even places that have had quite impressive dnow drifts have nothing on the scale you are used to!
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Date: 2018-03-23 11:22 am (UTC)I think you do too have every right to complain about the snow! It's very impressive to see places that rarely get even a dusting completely coated.
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Date: 2018-03-23 12:21 pm (UTC)They're now mentioning the 's' word AGAIN for next week!
Oy gevalt!
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Date: 2018-03-23 03:01 pm (UTC)