March 14, 2005
Spring is Coming. Maybe.
The signs are all here. It's warm enough to walk around without stuffing your hands in your coat pockets. There are a few cafes tentatively setting their tables outside. The two doves who lived on the tree outside my window last year are back and bothering the cat.
But I don't think Silistra is quite yet ready to trust spring to be there when it counts. We're all still on the edge of our seats, waiting for that next mildly annoying snowfall. Hopefully it won't come.
The slightly warmer weather means that I'm back to swimming pretty much every day. During the cold snap I was afraid that as soon as I walked outside after the swim I'd catch the flu. Now, I feel good about going into the water again, and I feel good in general. I'm still waiting for the town to start playing basketball again, though. Then I'll really be swinging.
So that's the mood. It isn't happy. Yet. Everybody still has their martenitsi firmly attached around their wrists, so no one has seen a stork or any other viable sign of spring. But there's a feeling. A quiet, lingering thing in the warm wind that's replaced the freezing. Seems to be making everyone a little happier.
Posted by Rob at March 14, 2005 10:03 PM