Spring

The trees are all in bloom including my orange trees and they smell wonderful. The pink plum are beautuful and the tulip I love. The white ones look like delicate snowflakes.

Libby will be 1 y.o. in May. I just got her these peek a books.

I'm reading Obama's book: The Audacity of Hope.

I'm not so sore this morning, just exhausted since I was up reading till 2 after tutoring. Even with my afternoon nap I was zonked. One of my students yeaterday told me I looked like her grandmother and my hair was kind of like her's too. Once I was at the hospital to visit a new mom and they thought I was the grandmother and that was 15 years ago!

I think I will stay on the East coast from 4/19 through 5/7. It really doesn't make any sense to fly home Monday and turn around and fly back on Fri.

I may go though the Shenendoah Valley. I'm thinking to stay in the D.C. area for the weekend of the 30th then drive up through PA, NJ, and NY to the beaches, then CT and maybe to the cape. I've always wanted to see the Hamptons and I really like the Cape. The Clam Chowder and scallops are great. From Va I'll stay in this mansion of an iron master in PA that was a underground rr stop during the Civil war. In Charleston and Savannah and Greenwich I will too. I love these old houses turned into b and b's. CT fasinated me. Especially when they go back to the 1760's.

When I lived outside of Hartford in 77, the year Gwen was born, I didn't go to see Twain's home or that of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

I remember going to the Poconos to check out the honeymoon hotels with Jeff. Boy were they sleazy. Those heart shaped tubs and round beds looked good in the Bride magazines but shabby in person. I was glad we looked before we booked. Actually since that engagement was called off, it was moot. I just had a flashback on the tour and camping in 72 the year Emily was born.

Joe and I lived in Groton, Michael called to tell us Gwen was on the way, we went to Mystic but never to the cape and to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard till Jimmy's 2nd wedding in 1988 we only went to Boston. We did take weekend trips to Boston and Montrael and Vermont once.
I never even explored Groton much I was still commuting back to East Windsor to teach rather than find a new job for 3 months. One morning everything was coated with ice, the trees and the roads. I didn't hear the cancellation since I was out of the area until I rented a car and called the principal after I drove all that way in dangerous conditions for nothing. Nancy and I went ice skating. I don't miss that.

During Jonathan's bar mitzvah I was facinated by the history of CT and Greenwich and loved the Cady Stanton House. I loved seeing all the crocus poking up.

Spring in each part of the country is different. In the east, Utah and CO more so since it is so hard won.

Sometimes appreciation comes with age, knowledge or experience.