{"id":357,"date":"2010-04-22T17:15:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T22:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=357"},"modified":"2010-04-22T17:15:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T22:15:59","slug":"happy-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/22\/happy-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Earth Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is a beautiful day here in the ‘burg! The early morning rain cleared off and now it is sunny and warm. I saw my first hummingbird, huddling cold and wet on the feeder outside the front window. I worked all morning putting together slides for a presentation next week but then had to go outside. There should be some perks to working from home, right? I took some pictures to commemorate the holiday<\/a> and then walked down the winery road with Tina Turner, my beagle, not the singer. Perfect!<\/p>\n

I’ve got an hour before the webinar and am planning to head back outside with holiday-appropriate reading: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek<\/a> by Annie Dillard. I’m supposed to have it done by book group on Sunday…we all picked different books this month. I’m enjoying it: thick prose and sometimes disturbing images of nature that jar a bit but seem authentic. I’m not sure I always completely understand her philosophical points but she captures the moment better than anyone I know. Her concerns about missing spring really spoke to me:<\/p>\n

So, I have been thinking about the change of seasons. I don’t want to miss spring this year. I want to distinguish the last winter frost from the out-of-season one, the frost of spring. I want to be there on the spot the moment the grass turns green. I always miss this radical revolution: I see it the next day from a window, the yard so suddenly green and lush I could envy Nebuchadnezzar down on all fours eating grass. This year I want to stick a net into time and say ‘now,’ as men plant flags on the ice and snow and say, ‘here.’ But it occurred to me that I could no more catch spring by the tip of the tail than I could untie the apparent knot in the snakeskin; there are no edges to grasp. Both are continuous loops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That desire to capture spring is one of the reasons I’m taking so many pictures this year. Well, that and the new phone!<\/p>\n

I’m going to take some other ecology related book with me on Sunday in hopes of convincing them to read one or two: maybe Wallace Berry and Barbara Kingsolver. I’ve still got to finish Bound for Glory and the Civil War essays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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