First Light

Dawn

The early morning sky, at least recently, begins orange, then as the sun rises, though as yet not visible above the far hill, it lightens, as does the lake, till it crests the hills, changing the colors of the lake entirely, as the orange disappears.  This is the first morning where the brown or lilac hills have looked green, as the leaves are filling out, hiding the trees, the land behind the shoreline.  We are still able to see through the maples in our front yard, neither yet fully in bloom.  But nature is moving quickly, to hide the brown, to bring out the green, the color of spring, of life, of rebirth.  Yellow seems also to be an early spring color, either the dandelions, the daffodils, or the forsythia.  This was most noticeable when I was driving through Westfield, past the vineyards, as a weed, with yellow flowers, filled the avenues between the vines, giving the fields, especially those in the distance, a blanket of yellow, reminding me of the fields of sunflowers we used to see in southern France.

We had a good time with Ron and Linda last night at the Viking Club though it was crowded.  By the time we ordered, they were out of cubans, so we all had burgers with fries, quite good.  People were outside enjoying the warm weather and the inside was filled with what looked like retirees, people our age or older.  We signed up for the herring breakfast this Sunday, so that should be fun.  I have never had fried herring, especially for breakfast.

It's a warm morning, around 55, and it's expected to get into the high 70's later today, the warmest day of spring.  All is to change tonight, as a front arrives, bringing rain, perhaps heavy thunderstorms tomorrow, with rain forecast on and off for the next five days, much cooler as well.  We'll have to see how accurate they are.

Quite an expensive day, as we had the septic tanks cleaned, found out also that the lines within the house were clogged, because the septic was backed up, had that hydrocleaned(found a wash cloth among other goodies), now everything is squeeky clean and working well, until it fills up again.  Cost me 450 bucks to get this done, so we have decided to get a new system, costly yes, but it will allow us to have company without worry, especially our kids during the summer though we the rains we have had, I doubt if any system works perfectly though our neighbors have not complained, so who knows.  It's 75 out, quite warm in the sun, and we will probably go kayaking again since the lake is so calm, especially since it's supposed to storm tomorrow and the weekend.   Evie cut the lawn again, and things have dried enough so we can cut it, and it looks perfecto, that deep green of spring, rich colored from lots of spring rains, no dry spots, few weeds, so far.