Spring has officially sprung
posted in Alaska |As of today. Woot!
So, is there any evidence of this "spring" here?
Well, there’s the sunlight.
Remember, back in November and December, how I was bemoaning the darkness? The misery of daylight that lasted only 5 hours? The "daylight" that seemed more like an endless late-afternoon?
Hah.
I spit in the direction of the darkness, that’s what.
Because we got our curtains up in the bedrooms just in time. This would be a week and a half ago. The weekend that the idiocy that is Daylight Savings Time showed up. Because now…now the dotter goes to bed while it’s still light out. Official sunset is at 8:18 tonight–but the light lingers on for another hour. The sun rises at 8 a.m., but we’ve got light twilight before that.
In other spring evidence, we have hordes of various chickadees, sparrows, nut hatches, and red polls swarming around our bird feeder at dawn. We also have a songbird of some type, but I haven’t been able to see it. There’s moss growing at the feet of trees. And we had a week and a half of lovely weather where it got up to 50F for a while! Alas, that passed, and we’re back down to the 20s and 30s and have had more snow.
But, yes, somewhere out there, spring is coming.
