spring-a-ding-ding
The season called spring officially kicked off nine days ago, coinciding with the vernal equinox. All that week you could see industrious Seattleites busily digging in the dirt preparing their gardens. Then yesterday afternoon, snow fell from the Seattle sky — big old clumps of flakes. It caused several fender-benders before it ended after about an hour and a half.
This is the first time I’ve seen it snow in Seattle this late in the season for the 17 years that I’ve lived here.
This afternoon I got out my bicycle, pumped up the tires and pedaled a mile-and-a-half to Stone Way hardware for a porcelain light fixture. My first bike ride of 2008 it was. While I huffed and puffed in my lined black gloves, old memories of my bicyclist past hooted at how out of shape and unbikerly I have become. Well let him hoot; it felt good to be back in the saddle again.
S was busy whipping our various garden spots into shape — the pea chair, the raspberry patch and the vegetable plot. For her spring means spring break, and she intends to be productive with it this year.