Monday, February 7, 2011

Does this winter seem to be running out of steam, to mix a metaphor.

Our lunch time temperature hovers just below melting point of 32 degrees F, which means snow is melting where the sun is heating asphalt or roofs. An today is a day with good sunshine and it glistens on sweating snow and wet with snowmelt pavement. At sundown, pushing into the 6 to 7 PM slot, the sky hints at the blue glow of a summer evening, nature's first blue is cold, her softest clue, behold.

It's not quite time to look for open water on Lake Muskegon and seek the diving coots. At least I think the diving birds are coots. But during my first Muskegon spring, I remember a flock of them diving and feeding underwater just off the dock at the Old Grand Trunk property.

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