Monday, March 22, 2010

It's spring! (and the world is puddle-wonderful)

Wow. Burning that bon homme d'hiver last weekend must have really worked, because since then we have been reveling in the glorious weather of spring.

Need proof? I took these pictures this morning, at around 8:30 before the girls went to school. Note the absence of coats, mittens, scarves, hats... and it's just getting prettier as the day goes along. As the poet e.e. cummings wrote, "it's spring, and the world is mudluscious" (and later in the same poem, he called it "puddle-wonderful"). Not a very French description, but somehow fits anyway.

Bienvenue printemps!

4 comments:

A Novel Woman said...

Oh my gosh, those girls are so cute this looks like a greeting card!

Enjoy your spring. We had tulips emerging last week, and this week...more snow here in Montreal.

Arg.

(off in search of a bonne homme d'hiver to ignite)

Lisa K. said...

I'm telling you -- that bon homme seemed to do the trick!

And I am only too familiar with the appearance of spring flowers, only to have my heart break when they get covered with snow... you want to almost root for them to stay under a bit longer... just to give them a chance to not be frozen!

Wishing you a quick arrival of spring (and a spring that sticks around!). Thanks for writing.

Mikey Bikey said...

Snow flurries here today. Maybe we will have to build one and burn him. It seemed to work for you.

Lisa K. said...

I say go for it! It really did the trick here! (and wishing you lovely sunshiney Lethbridge spring days...and NO MORE SNOW!)