Spring loaded

Mysterious Spring beauty…you don’t think she’s grown tired over the winter of her aging husband and loosened the bolts on the garage door opener because she met someone new? Spring makes many wishfully think of changing. Irrational, I know, but Spring fever and all…”(Newberry postcard collection: Spring Novelties/USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

Just like those giant metal springs that lift and lower your garaged door, Spring is heavily loaded…and dangerous if not handled carefully….especially with all the stresses.

That powerful garage metal  coil is pretty singularly focused and fine with mechanical restraints even with their over-abundance of poised energy.

The Spring season? With high expectations, heady enticing weather, and human biorhythms….be prepared to duck. (We won’t even mention the pollen or picnics. Or shedding of restraining winter clothing. Or refusal of some to realize ‘It’s bedtime, I don’t care if the sun is still shining and kids are in the pool next door!”)

No holding back either: loose garage springs or humans on the loose.

“It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”
(Mark Twain)

So heed the warnings: “The March 2022 equinox arrived on March 20 at 10:33 a.m. Central Daylight Time (15:33 UTC).” Whether you are hemispherically warm or cool to that, you can read more here.

Nothing like a vernal equinox….as if adjusting the clocks to Daylight Saving Time, a general feeling of “Love is in the air”, and a reluctant ending to Spring Break wasn’t enough for people to cope with.

Exhausting for sure. (Naps are good in any hemisphere.)

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”(Rainer Rilike)

Time to load up as the world turns (on short sleeves, sun glasses, tissues (Is it allergies or is it covid? HAHA), and those cleaning supplies (in prep for Spring cleaning…not husband mysterious disappearance evidence …it’s a joke..LAUGH…cleans winter cobwebs out of the brain)

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”(Pablo Neruda)

And who would want to.

Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge.

Wouldn’t be a post without some weird collected factoid: “Death came in the Spring: New evidence shows when the KIller struck.” So it it looks like the avians got lucky, while fish, not so. And you thought pollen was bad. 

If she’s telling Winter’s cold shoulder, “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out”, I’m fine with that. Otherwise, it’s just so Spring. (“Spring saying goodbye to winter in the Netherlands” from Newbury’s John High Collection/USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)