I think Spring has finally sprung here in Marquette.
First of all, hope you had a great weekend. We had a weird one, at least weather-wise, when it was 70 Friday, 40 Saturday, 70 again on Sunday, and now with a forecast of 80 here today. But then, that's what you get when you live next to the world's largest natural air conditioner, a topic that, purely coincidentally, I'll be talking about tonight on TV.
But that's neither here nor there..
Friday I celebrated "Ceremonial First Day of Wearing Shorts to Work Day" (which, by the way, IS a real thing, at least to me) by heading down to Lower Harbor Park to see how Spring-like things were there. And despite the wickedly late winter we had this year, I'm happy to say that, slowly but surely, we're getting there--
The grass is finally starting to turn green, buds are starting to call the trees home, and residents of all kinds were out taking advantage of the gradual turn towards warmer weather.
Something, of course, you'd expect everything to do on "Ceremonial First Day of Wearing Shorts to Work Day".
Lest you think this is just me, it's not. Last Thursday when I was taking pictures of the lilac buds for Friday's entry a woman came up to me and said, and I'm quoting here, "Isn't Spring just the greatest time of the year?" She's not wrong, which is why it's funny that it's probably the shortest of the seasons here in the UP. I mean, think of it--it was below freezing last week, and snowing just three weeks ago, yet today it's supposed to be 80. It's like we went from full winter to full summer in under a month. And the funny thing is...that's not uncommon around here. Summers are short but spectacular, falls drag on, and winter occupies half of the calendar. Yet Spring?
Well, I guess that's what we call this past weekend.
I have no idea if summer's here to stay, if winter makes a return (Mother Nature DOES, sadly, enjoy giving us May snow when she can), or if we get more than a weekend of Spring. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out. All I know is, that for now, people are taking advantage of the fact that Spring has sprung.
No matter how short of a season it turns out to be.
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