Faux Spring..........

February in norCal & it feels like Spring, it looks like Spring but, it ain’t Spring......it’s false Spring but it’ll do until the real thing comes along....
we get spoiled here, darned if we don’t......winter temps that rarely get below 30o....daytime highs in the 50’s......
the worse part is when the skies get grey & cloudy & we don’t see the sun for a few weeks & it makes us cranky...
then in the middle of February comes false Spring & we come to life again......ragtops drop, bicycles proliferate, blooms & buds pop, and joggers & walkers come out of hibernation & politics take a temporary backseat..... God’s in his heaven and all’s right with the world.
It’s all an illusion, of course. Like a mirage. A magic trick by Mama Nature. A few days, a week or so, if we’re lucky.......the wind will turn, the skies will darken & the rain will fall, snow, maybe, in the sierra. Doesn’t matter ‘cuz we know that Spring is coming for real... & the long hot summer after. “In the summertime, when all the trees, the leaves are green........” R. Miller
Justin Other Smith