Dispatch from Bellingham, March 25, 2011
I've been sending these dispatches as emails to many of my friends...I thought I might share them with my blog followers too. Let me know if you would care to see more of these very personal reflections. Dispatch from Bellingham, 25 March, 2011 I’ve just come back from watching the setting sun from Boulevard Park. The locals swarm to the park these days, when the sun is warm and inviting, suggesting that winter really and truly is ending and Spring has begun. The buds on the trees, the fresh new leaves along the walking paths, the chatter of dozens of small birds, the relentless search for worms by the recently returned robins, and the glorious pink Japanese Plum trees all proclaim that the season has shifted. The sun is setting further north these days. In the midst of winter, it dipped behind the central part of Lummi Island; now it is almost completely to the right (i.e. North) of the island…an astronomical proof of the onset of spring. I know t...