I love springtime. One really experiences the seasons here on the eastern coast of Va. In a word its juicy. The emotional response to the changes in the seasons are intense, and attention grabbing. One cannot help but be swayed by the beauty of it all, the sudden warming, greening, flowering, the birds returning to torment us with the their morning concerts. In a word, joy. Springtime is joyful and comes not too soon.
It seemed as if there would be no end to this past winter. One could feel with the imagination, the greening- the life -returning to the surface. I could "taste" it before it was here, because I knew it would not last forever. The turn from winter to spring is marked on the calender as March 22, but it is felt way before that in one's soul. We are all part of the process, and we sense its arrival with great anticipation. I am writing all this out , because I have been away from the Eastern US most of my adult life, and now I have returned and these feelings are what I remember growing up with, and I missed having them. When one says that they miss the seasons, what they really mean is the feelings that accompany them. Am I to regard this as an attachment to the senses? If so I must own it wholeheartedly, it helps to have something so beautiful in ones life as to keep one attached to the Earth, as living here is indeed acutely painful at times. I enjoy noticing things like the seasons changing, the earths moods in all her attention grabbing narcissistic attempts to make us wake up and behold her. I feel that our enjoyment of it is something necessary in order for it to continue. As I have said before, quoting from the expert on water Masuro Emoto,
Attention is Love. If something is amiss, or different, we take notice. We should notice changes around us as our animal brothers and sisters do. Its what keeps them alive, and us, because our survival instincts are tied into our awareness of the surroundings as well.
Because of civilized life ("slavelized")where we are indoors most of our lives, many things happen around us that we are unaware of.

Like these clouds. These are not normal clouds. These are the kinds of clouds that covered me for over an hour on my way out of DC and into the countryside of Rappahannock county along Rt. 66 (interesting number). It was beautiful, and I believe caused by the technology of HAARP. Do you remember ever seeing this before? I don't. Mind you these are not my photos, I found them on the web. The clouds I saw were more hilly, like a very deep series of upside down gray hills. There were even "holes" which you could see the sun shining thru, as if they were upside down volcanoes. I can't find any pictures of these online, and I certainly couldn't find a spot to pull over in the rain on the highway. If you don't go outdoors, you don't see them. That is what I mean about being aware of what is "out there". Aren't you curious as to what this is all about? You should be. But of course there is nothing in the "news" about this sort of thing. You can look these up under "undulas asperatus".
As I turned off of Rte. 66 on Crest Hill road, I was again just overwhelmed with all the sights. The change from winter to spring is amazing. The beauty of each season is in itself just as intense as the other, but spring is to my favorite perhaps due to its short life. The flowering trees, lilac, dogwood, cherry, plum
each species lasts only a few weeks.Here I caught a red bud, (see the magenta haze in the picture with the dark fencing)


which I will be lucky if it is still visible next time I drive out there. What is the most incredible besides the color of the trees and the flowering bushes and the bulbs, is the vast expanses of green. What is it about green? I don't think I ever get tired of emerald green hills. Its restful and its




such a pure solid color, almost like velvet.
And because I go to a farm to pick up dairy products, one notices the cream. The color is no longer "cream"-- it's a pale buttery yellow. The cows eat the green grass and their milk has more butterfat and the cream is yellow. It tastes better too. So of course I had to get some of this buttery nutrient rich cream--and butter too, which was almost orange in color. So I am learning about the change in the food due to the changes in nature. When I am in touch with this farm, I feel calmer, safer, saner. I know where the food is coming from. I see the cows who have names, and I love them and their calves who are being born now. I see how simple life is and I want to be part of this for as long as I can.