Signs of Spring

The end of Winter and the start of Spring doesn't happen at a precise moment that any human can see and announce to the world. Spring's arrival happens in the dark just beyond our sight but we are most definitely aware that it's coming.

Spring comes to us just like the mystery of resurrection. For some reason We look for the fixed points in time that we can name as the moment when new life starts after old life has ended. Maybe we are making a mistake to look for fixed points in time like Euclid encouraged his students to imagine as they studied geometry. The trouble with beautiful mysteries like the arrival of spring or the joy of resurrection we humans can't point to one moment in time when one ends and another starts.

As the daylight last longer there's no one point where you can say that the warmer weather has started. Maybe it's the day the kids want to play on the porch. Maybe it's the day the day when the front walk is no longer icy.

The last month we've watched as a couple feet of snow disappeared from our yard. And just this week we watched as the ice has disappeared on the lake. Last night I got the canoe out to paddle along side the ice just to see what it looked like at eye level. This morning, not even 10 hours later I got out to run and saw that most of the ice had disappeared in the night.