So in my mind (and partly on paper) I had even the new things more or less organized, I thought.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Certain things for Monday, certain things for Tuesday, then Wednesday, then a day to pack and prepare for the trip to College Station, with a wary eye on the weather (my preferred route avoids most major highways, but isn’t OK if there’s heavy rain…)\u00a0\u00a0 Monday ran almost (!) to schedule, except I worked on only one pieces of music and could not finish the blog post for UK-editor.\u00a0\u00a0 It looked stupid.\u00a0 (Trust me: I can write stupid.)<\/p>\n
Today…after a stormy night…dawned clear and beautiful.\u00a0\u00a0 We took Michael in to the bus, and I sat down at my desk to start today’s work–quite a lot, actually, but beginning with the blog post, which looked even more stupid this morning.\u00a0 Started over.\u00a0 Started over twice.\u00a0\u00a0 Looked out the window–clear, heavenly-blue sky, warming up–and you know where this is going.\u00a0 Out the door with camera and binoculars, to walk out to the far corner where oldest Mexican plum might be blooming (it was) and look for odonates (none: no dragonflies, no damselflies.)\u00a0\u00a0 The other Mexican plums on the place had buds *almost* bursting but not quite (the one in the garden proper was in full bloom…the fragrance…incredible.<\/p>\n
Then came the phone interview which I always think I’ve messed up, but maybe not.\u00a0 Then some other things had come in, that I dealt with, and by now the third attempt blog post looked stupider, if possible.\u00a0 What was I thinking?\u00a0 Why couldn’t I just say what I meant?<\/p>\n
Spring, of course.\u00a0 The second week of March in central Texas–after a wet winter and in a wet spring–is a very rapid burst of life.\u00a0 Birds migrating through, some of them now in spring plumage and singing their hearts out.\u00a0\u00a0 Coral honeysuckle, bush honeysuckle, wild plum, and (by 2 pm) redbuds popping buds.\u00a0 Water trickling along the ground, or standing in pools that reflect the blue sky.\u00a0\u00a0 The smells, the sounds, the feel of the air…words are inadequate.\u00a0\u00a0 You just want to breathe in, and in, and in.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow is thunderstorms again, probably.\u00a0\u00a0 But today–today was a day to be outside, looking up at the budding trees, the flowering plums, the promise in the rain-drenched grass of more flowers later.\u00a0 More of our springtimes are dry than wet…these have to be celebrated.<\/p>\n
And the blog post will unkink itself soon–I can feel it beginning to slither out of the knot it was in–maybe tomorrow morning before I leave for the city, or maybe between the noon appointment and choir practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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