Friday, March 5, 2010

Hints of Spring

Today I felt Spring in the air for the first time. It's warming up even though it snowed earlier this week. The sun seems brighter and the air is just plain nicer. But I do live in North Carolina, and I know it may be snowing again tomorrow or up to 85 degrees.

It's days like this when I sit in my office and look out at the bright day full of pine trees and cars zipping along and feel like I should be outside. I'm not even a big outdoors person, but the look of the day out there makes me feel wrong for sitting in a desk chair under climate control. This feeling will intensify in summer when the Southern heat ramps up and the pull of the humid air is almost irresistible.

There's something about warm weather and being indoors that feels wrong to me. It feels comfortable and cool, but also wrong. The South is wild and to sit with plate glass between you and the heat seems false and blasphemous. Magnolias curl toward the door, mocking you in the supposed safety of a man made structure as if they are one missed trimming away from coming inside.

Building civilization in the wilderness doesn't make the wilderness go away.

But I digress...

It's almost Spring!

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