Spring Green

The lush bright new green of spring has always been one of my favorite sensory experiences.  Most memorable is probably how Gainesville and the surrounding area used to seem to just pop into green overnight. Even being Florida, there was a dramatic difference.  When I lived there, spring was my favorite season.  Here in New York, our green has not quite caught up yet.  We are having lots of rain to stimulate it though, so hopefully soon we will see more color.  Right now it is a cozy, melancholy rainy day.  The fog is so thick along the river that I can hardly see the Mid-Hudson Bridge.  It made for great napping weather.  It doesn't stimulate much progress on the boat job list though.

I was looking through my photo files and found some more of my favorite spring time photos from years past and thought I would post them, along with some of the fog today. The fog had cleared a little by the time I took the photos, but when I first got home from work this morning I could not see the Mid-Hudson Bridge from the park.  The hiking photos are from Harriman State Park last Sunday, along one of the old mine trails off of Seven Lakes Drive.  It is a wonderful place to wander in the woods.  In Florida, the holes in the ground would have been sink holes, but they are actually iron mine entrances from bygone years. And, a couple of the photos are from a Caribbean springtime trip last year, but reflect the wonderful spring green I love!  Next month I have some wonderful April photos I took in Central Park when I lived in the city.