Monday
Feb012010
Take me away from here!
February 1, 2010 * * * * * Posted by: Frida 
That’s what runs through my head several times each day. Winter is not my best time of the year. Just think of all the clothes you have to put on just to get the mail or the paper each morning. Or all the snow shovelling you have to do each day. Just when you’re done the snowplough passes by your house and you’ll have to dig a bit more to release your car from the grip of snow and ice. Don’t misunderstand me I love the cold, sunny and snowy winter. The glimmer in the snow on a beautiful winter’s day makes my heart jump. But those days are easily counted during one winter. I cherish every one of them.......
But I’m a summer lover. Just imagine the warm sun shining on your pale winter skin. Touching your face and make your eyes hurt a bit from the intense light. You find yourself standing against a wall with your face turned towards the sun wishing you had your sunglasses.
All your senses will awake to all the different fragrances of spring and summer. The flowers bloom with fantastic colors and they sooth your frozen soul. All the little bugs and insects wake up from their winter dormancy. Mrs. Ladybug greets the sun and make you smile. The first bumblebee flies round and round not knowing anything else that he must have something to eat. He makes you giggle when he flies head first in every flower he see. Wobbling all over the place like a bulldozer just to find the food he need.
All the birds sing to find a suitable mate and they work hard to make their nest ready for the little ones. It’s a busy time of year for them. They have so many things to do, and so little time to do it. You can hear the roe deer in the woods calling for love. The squirrels run up and down in trees all day. There is an explosion of colors; fragrances, sunlight and warm winds that make me believe there is life after a long cold winter.
Looking through my window now at 4:15pm I see it’s getting dark and there are some snow falling. Not much but its snow! Outside my door I have 2,3 ft of snow and I think of all the little creatures I have in my flower bed under all that snow. The flowers waiting to bloom as soon the warm sun reach the earth. Spring is just a month and a half away
Hurry up my dear Lady of Spring I need you here to warm my winter frozen soul!
Reader Comments (17)
I'm glad I didn't miss this before I leave for two weeks. LIving in northern Canada, above the 55th meridian I do understand that longing for winter to be over. We still have months of winter and I too begin to get that itchy feeling and restlessness. I smiled ear-to-ear at your mention of how much clothing we must wear -- I always have to go outdoors looking and feeling like the Goodyear blimp!! Such a place we live Frida!
That makes two of us. But at the same time I don't want to live elsewhere because I love the changes in nature over the year. Without winter I couldn't pick the first spring flower.
You make me long for spring and summer, my favorite season. I yearn for warmth. I have learned that cold is relative, because my cold is not nearly as cold as yours or Diane's!! Love your photo, btw!! :)
Your image makes winter look beautiful and makes one (briefly) forget about how c-c-c-cold it can be. I don't think I would be happy without the beauty of all four seasons, even though I do find winter sometimes challenging to endure.
I love your picture! I like the changing of the seasons, and I've had it with this winter and want the season to change. Last week it looked like it was going to change, but today we have have snow again, wet watery snow.
I'm one of the weird ones, Frida, who loves cold more than hot, but I can certainly understand where you're coming from. I grew up in Michigan during the time when we had real blizzards and snowdrifts and could build igloos from the top layer of crust after a freezing rain. Then we moved to South Carolina in 1971, followed by Southern California and 22 years in the South (Georgia). Actually, there were 4 years in between in Wisconsin where it was like Michigan, cold and snowy. Now that I'm here in Holland, back "up North," I'm enjoying more snow than I've seen in 22 years.
However, if I had fibromyalgia, as you do, I'm quite sure I'd be singing a different song. Trust me. In fact, autumn has always been my favorite season of the year but I have a feeling spring will compete heartily this year. All the things you described as lying dormant, just waiting waiting waiting, will come and you'll be like this bird, ready to land once again. You'll be Home and you'll be in heaven. We'll all be.
I wish it for you as soon as it can come.... In the meantime, hang in there and keep showing us your delightful images.
Amen.
I love winter..but more - I love the changing seasons and knowing that they will change....that winter will melt into spring..and that the sun will come out and 'warm our frozen winter souls.' Love your words!!!
Frida, Punxatuwny(sp?) Phil just saw his shadow here in the US. It means six more weeks of winter.
oh frida, i am getting on a plane in two hours to head back to the winter cold. i promise myself each winter that this will be my last. i am a summer person as well.
I sit here in Texas, winter outside the door in all its glory - 7:25 am, 43 degrees, on it's way to almost 60 today. And still too cold for me. I am not a cold weather lover ever, except on Christmas Eve. :) The tulip trees are beginning to bud, the camellias are beginning to bloom, and I am antsy antsy for color out there. My feet are bare in anticipation.
Hang in there - it will come.
I live in Southern Ontario and I hate the winter. It's easier here than it was in Ottawa (a blistering cold there) but it's hard. And it gets harder the older I get. I too suffer with fibromyalgia and dream of living in the dry heat of a desert, because for me, the spring brings rain and rain brings pain.
Yesterday we had a little taste of spring sunshine, the kind that puts a little toast on your back. It was probably just a little tease,but it felt so good! I live a little farther south than you, so spring comes earlier here. After a brutal winter, I can hardly wait!
Frida... I love this post! I've always favored spring.. especially after I had my first daughter in March. Couldn't have had a more perfect spring day to bring home a newborn as the earth was awkening to the sunshine! It always arrives with great anticipation in my heart... to a new begining!
I've never lived in the conditions you describe. I'm certain I would get 'cabin fever' after a while, but there is an attraction in your words that beckon to the stillness and solitude of winter -- with the understanding the lady of spring was not too far away :-)
frida i think you would love africa - just for all the things you describe above: changing of seasons, the amazing beauty all around..bugs, birds, a myriad of living things. up here on the farm it's endless. like ginnie, i am also a cold-weather person...question to self: why did i end up in africa and not alaska :) i prefer it when the air is crisp and sharp. i abhor humidity, it drags me down. we're going into our summer now, just coming out of the short rains. days heating up, but nights on my mountain still deliciously cool :)
great photo! it's like this awkward little bird can't quite get her sails up. i haven't been thinking much about spring yet. I am in CHicago now and winter is in full swing here. At home in Oregon spring begins in February and the funny thing is that i have come to love the winter more than i would ever have thought possible. not the cold wind, not the grey sky. It's the peace and the quiet. The muffling of sound, of the outside world. i love to read, watch movies, snuggle and wear my warm clothes. Once spring begins in earnest i will change my tune, let go and set sail towards the sun.