I have turned off the heat at Wilboterria and I have opened a sliding glass window and allowed fresh air to flow into my life. I have to keep one one curtained so I can see my computer screen. I can see the sandy bottom of my creek one floor below and its never frozen all winter long. During Snowmaggedon a few weeks ago, I saw my creek full of saturated snow, but ice never crossed its surface and I've counted more than 100 mallards swimming around. I enjoy occasional visits from the swans, who stand on the sandbars.
The lake ice of my dune lake is melting where the creek flows into main body of water. I've seen this effect on Lake Muskegon and Lake Muscatawa also. Surely, the open water of the creek allows sunshine to strike its bottom and the sand passes its heat to the flow. In the fall, I was rains of autumn washing leaves out of upper branches of trees, the crowns. Once the crown is washed out of leaves, the lower boughs are unprotected and rains can wash those leaves down, also. In this way, I see Winter flow into spring and Autumn flow into Winter.
I was driving last night south of US-31 for Holland, and I cast my eyes upon the rows of blueberry bushes in fields that still hug the highway. I hear the Lakes Mall near Muskegon, Michigan supplanted a huge blueberry farm. The sticks of those bushes have reddened, but only before and after photographs can document the degree. I was happy to have sunshine around 6:00 PM so I could look down those long rows of blueberry bushes. This year, I will be sure to take pictures when bee keepers set hives amongst the flowering blue berry bushes. As I wrote last night, Frosty Oasis on Sherman in Muskegon, Michigan advertised February 18th as an opening day. That's today, and every cone is a large today, if I remember last year's opening. Funny how we celebrate melting snow by handing out extra large cones of ice cream.
All right. I've closed the glass door already.
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