Here Comes The Sun (Where'd The Snow Go?)

I woke up yesterday and stepped outside, heading for the gym like I usually do in the morning, when something hit me.

No, not a car. Not anything large and hard, and really nothing at all. It was more of a revelation, a realization, one of those moments that my Literature teachers so tactfully call "Ah-ha moments."

Who came up with that? I ask you, can we get any more ridiculous?

There was no snow. That was the point I was trying to make. I stepped outside, prepared myself to plunge into a snowbank on my way across the campus, and was startled to see signs of life once again.

Ducks out near the lake. Grass, standing tall and green. Skies without clouds. A bright and yellow shiny thing in the sky, bringing heat and light to the world below, and making a strange black thing on the ground just behind me which followed me no matter where I went.

After a while, I was informed that this was my shadow. Really, what will they think of next?

To use that phrase that someone decided to put on a needlepoint pillow some time ago, Spring has Sprung.

Beware, it leaps without warning.

Somehow, without me noticing, Spring snuck into the neighborhood and set up shop. The snow was gone and the clouds had moved away, the air was warm once again. I barely recognized the place.

This was SPRING. Not that period of days wherein the weather looks all nice but you know that the next day there would be snow crushing everything back down, but a beautiful time you just felt in your bones would last for at least a few months. It was Spring, Spring, Spring.

I felt anxious.

Suddenly, people were outside in shorts. Without jackets, even. They were hitting little white balls with wooden sticks, or throwing brown lemon-shaped pigs at one another. People were actually using the benches out on the quad. For once, no one was scraping their car of ice.

This, surely, had to be a dream.

There was one way for me to be sure. I went back inside and changed my clothes. I removed my heavy jacket and warmer pants and walked out in jeans and a t-shirt and lighter jacket.

And I felt the warmth spread through my body from that big shiny thing in the sky.

And I liked it.

Okay, fine, Spring is here.