Saratoga Irish

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow someplace else




Three days of snow this week and one day added freezing rain just for fun. Now I know that there are people who love the snow, "Look how beautiful it is " but as the season progresses most people start to dislike, nay, hate the snow. We all know this and that's why Mother Nature has a PR Firm working for her. As we head into the winter season we all sing songs of the joys of snow, Winter Wonderland, White Christmas, Baby It's Cold Outside, and even after The Christmas season we have James Taylor singing,
Now the first of December was covered with snow
And so was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston
Now the Berkshires seemed dreamlike on account of that frosting

So you think that winter is the only season that people get tired of, but you'd be wrong. Mother Natures firm is hard at work for all the seasons. You see we are a very fickle creature. Spring is a bit different because we long for it. We even look to the groundhog to tell us what we already knew, that spring is still over a month away. Spring sticks it's head out in March but then come the April rains. So for Spring we dislike it right away so we tell rhymes of spring "April Showers bring May Flowers". Baseball season begins in April so sometimes we forget the so so days with a longing for our youth and a game of pitch and catch. Before you know it Summer has arrived. Now Summer can get hard, and we are warned about it, The dog days of August. So we have a few songs about summer,
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Those days of soda and pretzels and beer
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Dust off the sun and moon and sing a song of cheer

Autumn brings the end of summer and the changing of the leaves. How beautiful the woods seem under a canopy of orange, red and yellow. The time for strolls in the park and a light sweater, ah nature at it's best. Before long you are spending every free moment in the yard with a rake and after you rake the leaves from the trees in your yard and bag them and drag them to the street. You spend the next weekend raking the leaves that the wind blew from your neighbors yard because HE doesn't rake his leaves the lazy bastard, so it's bag and drag all over again. The only respite is that the baseball season is having the World Series and Football season has started. Don't think Autumn is without song, Autumn Leaves, Harvest Moon, Forever Autumn to name a few.
By the time winter returns we have been singing Winter Wonderland and White Christmas for weeks and can't wait for it to snow again. That Mother Nature is pretty smart.

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