After yesterday's day of rains, I awoke this morning to a once again snow covered yard, as we have had at least two inches of wet snow overnight, with five more to come possibly. The high today will be in the high 20's or low 30's, and the snow will either stay or melt accordingly. Last night, we had pork schnitzel, spinach, and home fries, reminding me of our schnitzel dinners in Turkey, with a pad of butter and squeezed lemon on each piece. We watched THE SOCIAL NETWORK for a second time and can't say it was a great movie but interesting and it made me think of David Brooks analysis, how it's an update version of Wall Street, the movie, with loyalty and friendship and integrity thrown out in the name of ambition and materialism. Zuckerberg came off as more despicable this time, in a competition to show he's better than those who he deems his social superiors. Money seems secondary to the motto on his business card: "I'm CEO, BITCH!" This characterizes him in a nutshell...Power...I'm Better Than You.
As for the weather, as the sun moves north and the daylight lengthens(11 and 1/2 hours of sun), the snow hasn't the staying power of January. Thus, the mid day is warmer, stays light longer, the trickles of water appear in the woods, pools in the lawn, as the snow melts quicker. A few facts about spring...it moves north about 17 miles a day; if it's cherry blossom time in Washington, two days later it will happen in Baltimore. And one of the reasons Chautauqua is so far behind Hudson in spring has to do with altitude. Spring moves up a mountain or ridge about a 100 foot a day, so if you were on a mountain, you could literally watch spring flowers climb up the mountainside. Chautauqua is about 1300 feet above sea level, the the later spring
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