Springtime and showers

The forecast for the next five or six days is rain. This morning when I watched a bit of the weather they were showing a radar screen which was covered with rain across the southeast from Texas to Georgia. It is supposed to be getting cooler and raining through the first of next week.

I don't know all about that, but I do notice that the sky in the west has been alternating this morning between a dark purple and a medium grey. I am waiting for the deluge. So far, it is still dry outside.

So many of the local trees are covered with blossoms. Fortunately, I think it is early enough so that the rain, unless it gets too heavy, will leave the blossoms on the trees. I know the dogwoods are a butter yellow right now. There is a dogwood tree outside my office window and it is covered with butter yellow blossoms. Two bluejays were playing among the branches the other day. Noisy birds.

I wonder what the state of Spring will be like in Knoxville this weekend? I remember when I was still in school in Virginia, when we came home everything looked so green and decorated with the pastel colors of Spring. Meanwhile, Virginia's decoration came several weeks later. Of course, that meant that Spring Semester at Washington and Lee was glorious. Watching baseball and lacrosse out in the bright sunshine. Sipping on bourbon and coke in the stands at Wilson Field. Travelling to Maryland and UVA for lacrosse games under the blue skies. Of course, it poured down rain in College Park when we saw the Maryland/W&L game at Scott Stadium. Freshmen in college are not so smart that they will avoid deluges for important lacrosse games.

Anyway, I still have a lot ot do this week, before I can leave to go pick up Cindy in Knoxville and bring her home.