Early morning walks in December and January are cold and dark.
It takes a lot of will power to crawl out of bed, bundle up and walk.
It’s much worse when it is raining. Especially, the drenching, soak you right to the bone winter rains we get on the South Coast. And, when those rains persist for days, and at times weeks, there is plenty of obvious reasons to just sleep through it.
As December and January give way to February and March, the short days grow longer.
Day breaks through the darkness earlier and earlier.
It is truly glorious.
Walking down the Members’ corridor this past Tuesday, following the 6:30pm adjournment of the House, the light was still fighting back the darkness, and it brought a smile to my face.
Oh, the light! Welcome the light and the warmth of the sunshine.
Spring is coming!
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When I was still working a the local high school, I often would walk to work, often totally in the dark in the dead of winter. The first February morning when the sunrise outlined Mt.Arrowsmith as I turned up Burde Street, always drew something of a gasp of pleasure as a sign the there would soon be more light. The extended light in the evening is often a signal that I can go back out to the garden in the evening for another hour or so of grunting and contemplation.