Schlagwort: spring

Spring Blue Sky

Spring Blue Sky, 2018.

“With the expectation of the clear blue sky, (…) suggestive of expansiveness and continuity, this azure blue shade reassures us with its promise of a new day.”
Pantone Color Institute, 2017

PANTONE 16-4132, one of Pantone’s colors from the “Spring 2018 Top 12 Color Palette”, is almost as beautiful as the real thing: a wonderful clear blue spring sky. When you lift your eyes up there into the sky, you see that there is not only one kind of Blue but a multitude of different shades. So get out there and enjoy spring!

Spring Is Here!

Spring, 2018.

“Would you think it? Spring is come.
Winter ’s paid his passage home;
Packed his ice-box.—gone—half-way
To the Arctic Pole, they say.
But I know the old ruffian still
Skulks about from hill to hill,
Where his freezing footprints cling,
           Though ‘t is Spring?”
—Christopher Pearse Cranch, A Spring Growl, 1878

It is finally spring in the northern hemisphere! However, in the Rockies this time of year, spring is more a symbolic event and the meteorological season more a convention than reality. There is still snow on the ground, but at least temperatures did rise and days and nights are not as cold anymore as just a little while ago. While meteorological spring starts on March 1, astronomical spring is still 20 days away with the vernal equinox marking the day when daytime and nighttime is about the same length. Be it as it may, I look forward to spring!

Anybody Else Ready for Spring?

Snow Falling

Just a little while ago it seemed as the end of winter was near. It was rather mild, most of the snow was gone, birds were chirping, and some bushes and trees seemed about ready to join the spring overture as well. With lengthened daylight hours came the promise of warming sunrays and the end of winter’s greyness.

But cheered too soon, winter came back full swing. There was snow again and temperatures dropped well below freezing. I know, it is only mid-February, and I also really do enjoy a white Christmas, but usually some time rather sooner than later after Christmas, I could do without winter’s chill. I know you are probably asking yourselves now why I am living in the Rockies then… Well other than long and cold winters—and yes, I also just remembered fire season—it’s simply absolutely wonderful here.

And I have to say, when you look at snow from a different angle, it is not just some cold, wetly mass falling from the sky but a rather beautiful example of abstract expressionism.