The coolness of the night forces the budding flowers to close and yet the energy of the day remains. Continuing the path for spring drives people with new vigor.
The Spring of Confusion copyright 2005
by
Joe Vojt
The early morning clouds reached down through the mountain ranges as a fine white mist captured what has turned into a gray blanket. With this overcast setting you knew it was morning even though the darkness continued, as you watched with excitement while a thin hue of light forced itself through. You knew the day had arrived even though the scene no longer looked familiar. It could have been anytime because the dark heavy looking clouds continued to hang close to the ground filled with humidity.
Darkness reached out early on rainy days and it felt like night, but the morning dusk stretched out into the surrounding hills and valleys. The peaks of budding green were forced out from the visible mists of spring and were replaced with clear growth. Even the local flat land’s, felt the warm air penetrating through nature, almost like life was captured in that chamber of mist.
You felt a heaviness that you labored with and yet breathing the air was clean and free. Spring comes with change and that variation emanates the offering of life. Finally you felt the warming sun explode through the cloud cover and instantly you knew by the clean healthy feeling, spring was here.
From a distance the birds could be heard singing their sounds of joy, while white puffy clouds continued to struggle within the blue sky. When the powerful sun finally made its intensity felt, that cover created during the morning by nature ended up in vain.
Warmth and peace are the elements of life that humans do not always take the time to enjoy. Like change, the renewal process of spring continues its ever lasting drive for survival. At that moment streams of light could be seen burning into the dark wet corners of the past week.
It is a pleasure to see and feel the warmth of the sun beating down on the area. If it wasn’t for that fine mist of gray that was continuously trying to cover the territory the sky would be all blue and normal of what is perceived as just another classic day.
Inner sanctity of emotion reach out from the soul of life and with that feeling we are faced with that one element required for surviving. What is available by actions and reactions can cause confusion, but what nature influences are the parts we have taken for granted. Once we accept change, the feeling that we are no longer free creeps in.
You can feel the heat returning, and with it comes the awareness of life. The warm air is pleasant nothing like the rain, which was over cast with the past clammy days. So you sit and wonder, what a difference a week can make as the brightness of spring continues nature’s path of exploding green and buds of yellow, mixed with red and violet. All this makes you feel serene as you glance over the scene.
Yellow pollen continues to be expelled during this season, covering the area ever so thin, but the air is clear, crisp and clean. Nothing can change the morning charge of what we have been awakened to.
All this is limited only by our own sight, as the early brightness clears the vision of life and what can be seen we nonetheless call paradise. No more hanging clouds, in fact the gray matter has cleared and the vista you view is from a different area of spring.
Your eyes itch and water as the pollen reaches into the human body that has enjoyed many years of nature. Even the brightness burns into your skin and with that a glow radiates beyond the years. Fragrances fill in for the visual pleasure of new growth, as they become color bound and at the same time pleasant to behold.
People walk with new vigor which is based on the warmth of the day. Mixing and disappearing between the buildings becomes normal because each person sets their own time frame within the senses and feelings of their mind experiences.
The wonderment of living reaches beyond the spirit of human life, because we all have a sole and with it comes the morning spring rain. Adding that new dimension as the wetness and fog hug the mountain side. This looks like a slinky covering the stairs and rolling down into the valley.
Fresh growth glitters and new colors explode through the wetness. You smell the moisture of the thick water vapors, but even with this cloud cover, the freshness does not diminish that new beginning. The green is over powering as it stands strong against what it has become and the brown colors quickly fade the area. Life is growth with change and what is now, was before and will again.
The birds of spring mixed with the cloud cover and the area retains a certain gloom, but the breeze continues working hard too clear what has become apparent. Days of spring and clouds bring what summer needs and time continues with variations that are the true indicators of nature. With this spirit of life the clear crisp air is the inspiration of what can be, but more important what is.
Flowers from budding trees are beginning to break away and speed through the air, gradually falling to the ground. That blanket covering has no permanent power, except for that one time. Without warning a breeze sweeps the path clear and forms a small cloud that reaches out toward the sky above.
You know it is spring because you feel that gradual turning into what summer is about to offer. Then the heat you feel makes a difference, but the human spirit knows that it is still spring.
The coolness of the night forces the budding flowers to close and yet the energy of the day remains. Being stored in its protective covering by knowingly all know that nature has a way of continuing the path for that glory known as spring. All this can be maddening, because the change never can equal what nature has in store for the body. Cool strong winds counteract the hot humid weather that is forth coming. It stays clear and fresh but never what is expected, it’s nothing like winter, because summer is waiting in the wings.
You can appreciate these odd feelings as they counter balance what has been and continues to change. Not good, not bad, not hot or cool, because summer is waiting to enter. With the green maxed out, you know that spring has outlived its stay.
The coolness breaks early during the morning hours as heat and new calmness take control of the local area. Streets become covered with traffic. Both people and cars take turns moving in their own directions.
Between the rain and increasing heat the coolness of spring explodes in all its green splendor. You can sense the pollen in the sky as it takes hold of your body. The redness, the tearing and sneezing make up that final break away from spring, as summer is about to begin. Green continues dominating the area as the buds have all but disappeared. With the morning coolness and the evenings maintaining the hot humid air, you know what to expect for the months ahead. Blue skies in the wake up and that briskness gives you pleasure to maintain.
Another day, another week has passed and with it spring has fully developed. All is green from the small hills to the rolling landscaped mountain sides the blanket covering is one to behold. Shades of green range from light to dark and in between. Each takes a life of its own, but nothing can be reached beyond the sky line of your vision. Some trees are high, but never uniform as miniature white clouds complete the backdrop. The air is crisp, clear and gradually becoming pollen free.
The heat has been replaced with cool dark overcast clouds. It is green and spring has completed the process of what nature requires. With limited pollen the air is crisp, clear and dry without any rain. A variety of high temperature with increasing humidity spread through the area adding that phase of life we can consider normal. The element of weather become the single most important change in life and directs many feelings with reactions that drive the human spirit forward into another time and sometimes into another place.
Work remains within the nebula of confusion lacking direction and discipline allows the search for that mystical goal, something like the seasons of spring, changing but always moving on.
The blistering season has brought in a full preview of the coming power of summer. Heat and lack of rain turn what was once lush green into a quick brown. The breeze is hot and humid as the population accepts what nature has offered. Heat slowly turned some bright green trees into brown with the constant breeze, and leaves begin to fall. This is more like what would be expected during the end of summer. Twigs look out of place because each tree should have a full lush bloom of green.
It no longer takes a great amount of activity to feel the body sweat and then you wonder what change is really going on? Modern man accepts the technology of envisioning what life would be in space. There would be special clothing and cool air which could be considered what is today. Too bad that winters fury can’t be channeled in summers heat and reverse, not so much the peak of summer but the beginning. With all this, the dry humid days of hot temperatures have been broken, at least for those final days of spring.
Dark cool winds with gusty rain are a pleasant replacement for those hot dry days that just past. Summer will have many variations and like nature cannot be predetermined. More sun is available and the key as the focus is exposure in the one element that is always there, but not always in the strength required.
The heat has taken over, summer is moving closer as you sit and feel the water squeeze out of your skin. Very little effort is required to start the process. Walking and sitting is a combination that creates that run on skin, which by the way is natural. With the sun hiding and the breeze increasing you know that evening is rolling in. Cloud cover helps in the masking of the sun and thus the warmth is captured like a blanket.
There is nothing like the affect of coming summer and this year it has reach early and became oppressive. In fact seventeen days of 90 degrees so far and not even summer. People that do not enjoy life in the heat are stuck with this environment. The sun burns what the body sweats and without water you feel the effects of wanting relief. Spring has moved aside early and is allowing summer to enter into its own state of confusion. All that life is, can never be captured by the elements known as nature.
THE END
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