SPRING!!!!!! And about gosh darn time, too.
The leaves were already full out in North Carolina before we even had daffodils--but this week spring finally fell in and the leaves are popping out, all new and delicate and that awesome fresh green that's impossible to duplicate, the green that will dullen in a couple weeks into the dark, tired summer green. The flowering trees have leafed out now, but there are still a lot of daffodils, and the TULIPS! I had no idea Pittsburgh was such a tulip city. I guess Pittsburgh's weather might be like Holland--because they're everywhere! Red, pink, yellow, white, multicolored, crazy exploded ones that look like roses, little tight buds that only open up the slightest bit--bursting and waving in borders, bobbing in the breeze. I love tulips! I want to run into a whole field of tulips and fall down and watch them waving above me.
ALSO, last week was Dandelion Week. All abruptly, every dandelion shot up, and every house without a Lawn Valet (i.e. every house not in the posh places of Squirrel Hill and Shadyside) became a field of yellow polka dots. Although they're weeds, they really look pretty nice until they go to seed, and then the lawn looks like a mess of fluff and dying stalks.
A couple days ago it was cold and rainy, and to cheer myself I tried to convince myself it was Londony, as opposed to dreary That worked for awhile until it got REALLY DAMN COLD. But while it was still fairly warm, I noticed how the rain made all the spring greens and pinks and whites pop like crazy mad, like someone had opened the landscape in Photoshop and jacked up the saturation. Lovely! Then it got colder and I stopped noticing the colors. Brrrr!
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