Among the flyers inserted in my mailbox this week was a bright sheet spotlighting eight different brands of boats offered by a family-owned marine company. Above the photograph of the smiling eight family members clad in short-sleeved shirts are words inviting readers to “make the most of the days ahead!” The sentence that made this reader blink a few times is “Sunny days are just around the corner.”
I maintain that sunny days on both lake and land are already here, accompanied by frigid temperatures and banks of snow. Warm sunny days when short-sleeved folks might consider taking any open-air vessel on a body of water are around the distant port of May, a good 14 weeks away. Even April is too soon to consider exposing kith and kin to the elements. T.S. Eliot aptly labeled those thirty days as “the cruelest month” for it is a period of capricious weather. On April 20, 2021 I mowed grass for the first time that spring. On April 21, 2021 I watched snow showers fall on that same lawn.
There will be both sunny and cloudy days in the next three months, chilly days meant for bundling up rather than casting off.
Wrought Thoughts 