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HOW I KNOW IT'S THE MIDDLE OF SPRING
October 18, 2018When I was a kid, I knew it was spring because I was itching to go to camp. I loved that week of long days outdoors, campfire cooking, sleeping under canvas and returning home tanned and tired.
Those days seem such a luxury and so, so far away. I have got to work out how to recreate that feeling. For now, I'll appreciate these little signs of spring, and promise of the coming summer.
- The lawn needs mowing. For months, nothing, and then bindi-eyes, grass up to your ankles and weeds, so many weeds.
- Everything in my garden is bolting to seed.
- There are strawberries.
- Spring storms. We've had a few rumble through already.
- Salads and barbecued snags are appearing on the menu. They'll be in high rotation soon.
- The alarm goes off at 5am, but my daylight saving-denial is real and the body says it's 4am.
- It's too warm to wear a jacket on the way to work, but still cool enough at night to want Uggs.
- Early season mangoes. Mmmmm. Mangoes.
- The jasmine, olive tree and hippeastrums are about to flower. The echiums, pictured, have been flowering for weeks.
- I am getting invitations to end-of-year celebrations.
- All the fashion magazines have swimwear spreads.
- You start the morning walk in track pants but change into shorts as soon as you arrive home.
- There are more people out walking in the morning (must have seen those swimwear spreads).
- It's still daylight when the evening news is on.
- You're thinking about the summer season and plans for Christmas.
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