Sunday, April 03, 2005
Like many people, I turned the other clocks ahead last night (pc changed itself) but didn't go to sleep & had trouble getting my butt moving today. Finally went up the street for coffee late afternoon. Gray day. Things are growing - tree buds covering the sidewalks, tiny leaves on forsythia, crocuses, a daffodil in a sunny spot, horny-bird music. Although there are more migrating songbirds in this neighborhood than where I lived in Rahway, there's less early morning spring cacaphony. On Irving St. by the river the birds - sparrows mostly - started up around 4 am (DST) for a false dawn I'm convinced they sense but we can't see due to light pollution, then they shut up for awhile, & began chirping in earnest at the start of dawn twilight, about half an hour before actual sunrise. This noise would wake me up when the windows were open.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
