winter + spring=sprinter

two weeks ago, we were snowed in...and today the crocuses are blooming which is none too soon for us in the NW! it's an in-between time for transitioning from winter to spring...paint your toenails one day, wear gloves outside and scrape your windshield the next; always those reminders that nature is in charge. shall i wear my sandals or my sweater today? maybe both! i keep one box of each season out here for a few weeks, just in case. you want to go outside and you can't so much because rain is hitting your roof at 30 miles per hour...other days you want to stay in and read but the sun is calling you to come out and play and you just can't resist! i'm starting to get a hankering (actually it never really left) for kayaking again and for the beach. i've always wanted to do the glass float search at lincoln city so that is a definite possibility for the outside world...that and baby chicks are coming soon (likely in april when it's "warmer"). i cannot wait for the weeks when i can bike to work every day and just leave my bike out and ready because i know the forecast will be clear skies and sun, sun, sun! i'm still reading even as my spring muscles twitch...i recommend "vaclav & lena" by haley tanner; an especially insightful work of fiction surrounding the main characters' special since-childhood friendship. i'm concurrently reading 3 books that are also about or set in new york: "a tree grows in brooklyn" by betty smith, "97 orchard" by jane ziegelman, and "stuffed" by patricia volk. one blends into the next with references to coney island or certain tenement apartments, giving me an historical feel for the city. all activities considered, i am sprinting into spring. what seasonal events are you looking forward to this year?