{"id":35371,"date":"2023-04-10T03:12:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T03:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/?p=35371"},"modified":"2023-04-10T04:26:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T04:26:01","slug":"march-at-last-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/?p=35371","title":{"rendered":"March at last or"},"content":{"rendered":"

could Ai Wei Wei<\/a> possibly serve as an antidote to all that Other News?\u00a0 Maybe for me*…but<\/p>\n

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meanwhile in other news here we were already a few days into April before February<\/p>\n

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finally loosened its grip on the upper desert, bringing sun with a bit – just a bit – of warmth.<\/p>\n

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It thus began to feel almost like March in the watercolor corner and mudroom but was still<\/p>\n

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too chill to eat out comfortably…afternoons were pleasant, however, and we did have the<\/p>\n

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considerable pleasure of a moon most full midweek.<\/p>\n

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Thursday the year’s first birds’ songs began to be heard on our circuit around the ponds<\/p>\n

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and lunch out, though windy, was almost habitable.<\/p>\n

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The Repo remained a bit cold for working in but<\/p>\n

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that sun in the studio sure felt fine…<\/p>\n

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mornings, however,<\/p>\n

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brought belly-dumping<\/a> dogs<\/p>\n

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to the house, albeit more birds without<\/p>\n

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and eventually a final, more comfortable, lunch on the porch.<\/p>\n

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One could not, however, honestly say the colors stayed anything beyond a wintry monochrome<\/p>\n

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…not yet, anyway, as was abundantly clear Saturday morning although<\/p>\n

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by then it was sufficiently warm<\/p>\n

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for breakfast on the porch, affording a last look at our ephemeral lake before<\/p>\n

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heading down the highway past that Other Lake<\/p>\n

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for gas in Wadsworth and back to<\/p>\n

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fun-loving California<\/p>\n

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where, after mysterious traffic congestions crossing the valley and a forty minute delay to<\/p>\n

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reach the Benicia waterline repair on 680 South, we<\/p>\n

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finally made it home, a little over an hour longer than usual but with time enough for a person,<\/p>\n

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if so inclined, to hide eggs** from the Zombie Jesus and\/or other curious northern hemispheric Springtime rituals.\u00a0 Or not.<\/p>\n

*Portrait thanks to L. Fleming.<\/p>\n

**Surely these would be snake eggs and the egg laying bunny myth should be laid to rest, no? The Easter Snake, not some rabbit, lays eggs [arguably, in the grass].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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