Birdie

 

 

Hampton NJ

 

Late Winter 2010

 

 

O, wind, if winter comes,

can spring be far behind?

~Percy Bysshe Shelly~

 

When you look out your window after a hard winter

And your eye catches something so simple as a bird

You run to get your camera to prove spring is coming.

 

Our first winter in Sussex County was a mixture of weather.

March was the worst month for us with a flooded basement,

A furnace destroyed by it and a landlord who took forever to fix it.

 

We spent the end of winter and the start of spring sleeping in the living room,

The fireplace burning away with logs from our pile and our neighbors.

It was romantic the first night but after a week I was done.

 

The sight of this little bird meant that the warmth was coming.

I had never been happy to see spring come,

But by late March I was done and couldn't wait.

 

Lesson learned ~ Fireplaces are great but space heaters are better.