Ozark Oddments: What’s wrong with this picture?

Wednesday, February 06, 2013

What’s wrong with this picture?

I am taking Miss Molly Wolly Doodle for a walk through town. It is a lovely warm day, and the sun is brilliant. In several yards I notice freshly laundered clothes have been pegged out on clotheslines and are flapping in the gentle breeze. Storm doors are propped open, and windows are raised to let in the fresh air.

And back at the home front, bees are busy working the crocus in the front yard.

What’s wrong with this picture?

Nothing, exactly, except that it is after all, the beginning of February. It is supposed to be winter.

It was winter this time a couple of years ago…

Yes, we are used to “yo-yo” temperatures in the winter, so this is not all that unusual, and it is very likely that within a week there could be 3 inches of snow on the ground.

I am not complaining, mind you. Just reminding myself not to be lulled into a false sense of security; after all, Winter is the season when Nature is out to get us…

All this lovely-ness makes me a little wary.

1 comment:

Far Side of Fifty said...: You have a premature spring..enjoy it:); 11:38 PM

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Thoughts to ponder

Most of us go through life so absorbed in the cocoon of ourselves that we rarely stop to consider the other. Of course, we think that we do; indeed, we may pride ourselves on our capacity for empathy; we may be considerate and thoughtful in our dealings with others, but how often do we stand before them. so to speak, and experience what it is to be them?--Domenica Macdonald

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, by Alexander McCall
Smith

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Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering -- because you can't take it in all at once. --Audrey Hepburn

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.--Agatha Christie

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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.--Katharine Hepburn

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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

"Two people... told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. I wouldn't mind if to be a Christian were accepted as being the dangerous thing which it is. I wouldn't mind if, when a group of Christians meet for bread and wine, we might well be interrupted and jailed for subversive activities. I wouldn't mind if, once again, we were being thrown to the lions. I do mind, desperately, that the word "Christian" means for so many people smugness, and piosity, and holier-than-thoughness. Who, today, can recognize a Christian because of "how those Christians love one another"?--Madeline L'Engle, "A Circle of Quiet"