Spring

Spring

Likes and Dislikes

• Spring is a rebirth for me. After being locked up inside to avoid the cold, I love the liberation of going outside and roaming the street again.
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• I love the moment when I notice my perennials beginning to surface from the ground.
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• St Patrick's Day is my favorite day of the year. I wish every day could be March 17.
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• I love the moment when I realize that it is 6PM and it is still light outside.
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• I love the smell of lilacs.
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• I would hold off as long as possible to avoid cutting the lawn.  once i started, i had to cut the lawn every damn week.
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• Rita's Water Ice opens on the first day of spring and they give out a free cup of water ice.  I've never gotten one because it seems as if people start lining up for this moment by 6 AM and the line doesn't die down until they close that day.
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• My grade school had a Mother's Day pageant every year and one 8th grade girl was named May Queen.  I always wanted to be the May Queen but that didn't happen.  But my sister-in-law as a May Queen.
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• Sometimes we have a snow storm in March or April and that throws me off.

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• I always had a week off from work for spring break.. i would book a flight to a state i had not visited yet.  Id go to the capital city, rent a car and just drive all over the state fro the next four days.
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• Restaurants, in my area,  open up their outdoor cafe tables.  I love to eat outside.
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• My mother gave birth on Mother's Day and she died on Mother's Day weekend.
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• I love putting my winter clothes away.
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• When I kayak for the first time after a long winter, I vow to go out at least twice a week and that never happens.
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• For 20 years, I read JD Salinger's book, Raise High The Roof Beam Carpenter, in the spring.  I was around 19 when I first read this book  and I think I read it every year until I was about 40.  I don't know why I read this book so often.  But I loved this story.
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• On Easter Sunday, my family would often go to the beach for a sunrise Mass.  It was always beautiful even if the sunrise was spectacular that year.  
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• On Good Friday, while other Catholics stayed hime and prayed together as a family, my parents took us to the Italian Market in Philly and we wandered around the market and went to a Jewish winery and drank wine samples and had a great day on this somber day.  When we returned to school on the following Monday, my parents mandated that we not tell the nuns that we didn't stay home.
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• My mother had the most beautiful azaleas bushes in our front yard. As a kid, I thought they stayed in bloom all summer.  It wast until I had my own home and my own azaleas bushes that I realized that I only had the beauty of these bushes for a week or two.  
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• Most years, I have great intentions to go to Washington, DC for the Cherry Blossom celebrations and that has never happened.