Life just suprises you sometimes.
Just a few weeks ago Chicago was still locked in the throes of one of the most brutal winters I can remember. It felt like it was a year long. Frigid temps, piles of snow, eternal grey skies. Dead lawns, dead trees, crispy bushes, no color in sight.
Then out of nowhere, spring bursts on the scene. Rapidly, brown turns to green. Life is everywhere now. Up high on the old oaks, down low on the solid ground; there’s color. Everything just wakes up.
Is there anything more amazing?
Joe Sak
on 23 Apr 08Amen to that. Michigan is in the same boat. Glad to have warm bike riding weather!
I’ve only driven my car to work twice in the past week :)
Yaphi
on 23 Apr 08no
Pujjahmi Johnston
on 23 Apr 08I love spring. The smell of cut grass, especially.
Gorbachev
on 23 Apr 08Does anyone else just want to punch these guys a little bit sometimes?
Jordan Sherer
on 23 Apr 08I hear ya. I’m located in Chicago as well and agree that this year’s Winter was horrible. Now that we have these 70 degree days we just need to fire up the grill for lunch on the patio.
Take care!
Adam
on 23 Apr 08Man, if I lived in Chicago, I would spend all of my time at Wrigley Field.
Tom
on 23 Apr 08I agree – there’s a lake across the road from my apartment. Every evening after work, my wife and I take a walk around the lake – the weather’s nice and seeing everything bloom is great.
Nick
on 23 Apr 08For as much as I love living in South Florida, this is something I wish we did have sometimes.
Benjy
on 23 Apr 08It’s about damn time! This winter sucked here in Chicago…
Duff OMelia
on 23 Apr 08It is amazing how things seems to just fit together so perfectly.
What’s interesting to me is that we look at a painting and know that there was a painter who painted it. We look at a website and it’s obvious that developers/designers created it.
Yet we then look at the beauty of an oak tree or the ridiculous complexity of the human eye and wonder whether there’s a creator behind it all. A random collision of atoms? Come on people!
Ricky Irvine
on 23 Apr 08Yes, yes, yes! I’ve been trimming and digging in the yard.
Old Timer
on 23 Apr 08You shoulda’ seen the Chicago winters in the late 70s. This was nuthin’
Vlad
on 23 Apr 08Yeah, same in Michigan. All of the sudden it goes from horrible to beautiful outside. I’m going to play some beach volleyball with some friends after work on a lake. Two weeks ago I was wearing a leather coat and gloves.
MattH
on 23 Apr 08Sorry to be a downer but that’s what we thought (in Southern Oregon) . . . until last weekend. Having recently moved from Michigan I’ll be surprised if this cold/snow/rain doesn’t work its way across the country.
It’s supposed to warm up again this weekend so hopefully this front is just a speedbump on the way to the real spring season.
Rob
on 23 Apr 08In St. Louis we had our Spring awakening about two weeks ago. I agree it is simply amazing and I am always amazed year after year. I don’t know if I could live anywhere without distinct seasons.
Alex
on 23 Apr 08The only thing more amazing is when spring happens in late February, rather than late April, as it does here in Austin. =)
James Finley
on 23 Apr 08I agree with Duff! How can any designer or programmer not see that something as perfect and beautiful as spring (especially this year’s transition in Chicagoland) and not see a Creator. If code could make itself, we would be out of business, but luckily that cannot happen. And neither can nature, and all it’s beauty, be just a random fart of the universe.
Amen for spring in Chicagoland!!!
nerkles
on 23 Apr 08@Duff & Finley:
Very easy, darlings: read a book about how natural selection works. No one who actually grasps it ever claimed it was “random” or just down to chance, nor a result of farts. To understand a process where all this beauty could happen doesn’t make it any less marvelous or wonderful.
Time to soak up some rays! :D
Peter
on 24 Apr 08So Jason, you have no children. Have you?
Jimbo
on 24 Apr 08DVDA?
Matt
on 24 Apr 08“When I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first reaction is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant and she fell on top of me. Then it wouldn’t be so funny.”
Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handy
Peter Urban
on 24 Apr 08We still have two feet of snow up here and in two days it’s supposed to be +18C – can you say flood?
Brad Fults
on 24 Apr 08Yeah, living in a climate that never gets wretched and miserable.
Jimbo
on 24 Apr 08Ed Knittel
on 24 Apr 08Yes. The high on Monday is supposed to be 47°F
Curse you Mother Nature!
J Lane
on 26 Apr 08I would have been more impressed if this post was written as a haiku.
:-P
Conor
on 27 Apr 08Posting from Munich. Spring just happened! Time to spend the afternoon lolling about in the Englischer Garten and drinking beer.
Joel
on 28 Apr 08Great post Jason. Though I’m in Texas now, I remember those harsh winters up north – brutal is right. Now that I’m in a much more temperate climate year-round, I find myself missing the changes of the season! Gotta endure the pain to really appreciate the flip-side I suppose.
Oh, and I second Peter’s comment above as well. Having a child is definitely more amazing.
Luca
on 30 Apr 08and now its back to fucking cold
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