I’m a tense, testy little person. I don’t have a lot of patience sometimes and I have a lot of things tumbling around in my mind like a load of laundry in the dryer. Not to mention, I’m extremely hard on myself when I think I’m not accomplishing things near my potential. At any given time, I’ll have long running commentary going on in my head about any number of things.
However, for a moment today as I was rushing somewhere in the cold (where did the high around 50 degrees go?), I actually stopped to look at a bare tree. The tree was bare of leaves but amazingly (this is why I stopped) had buds on it.
I had a former coworker once tell me that cooler fall temperatures weren’t on the way when I said the trees knew something that we didn’t currently know. It was hot as hell at the time the conversation took place but the leaves were changing colors. And pretty soon, the temperature dropped and it felt like fall. There was no gradual transition, it just happened that one day it was hot and the next it wasn’t.
There are still patches of icy snow on the ground here. However, I still think the trees know something we don’t yet – spring is coming. I’m glad I noticed…