Alright.  You made it—well almost.  Spring officially starts at 10:46am today.  So, give it a few more hours.  But let’s be honest: None of us would be surprised if we got a blizzard next week, right?  Or if the forecast calls for low 40’s and rain for 10 days straight?  At least here in the Midwest, the calendar and the climate don’t always seem to match, do they?

Well, we’re not alone.  It turns out, Columbus can be a bit like Paris…not really when it comes to food or fashion, but when it comes to Spring, as Ernest Hemingway wrote:

“With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. Sometimes the heavy cold rains would beat it back so that it would seem that it would never come and that you were losing a season out of your life. This was the only truly sad time in Paris because it was unnatural. You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason. 

In those days, though, the spring always came finally but it was frightening that it had nearly failed.”

Sound familiar?

Even though the calendar says it is Spring, we all know, the heavy, cold rains will beat it back sometimes, in Columbus as in Paris.  But never fear, Spring will finally come.  It only ever nearly fails…but it will come.  

Have a wonderful day.