Glimpses of Spring

Lately, we’ve been blessed with some warm weather and sunshine.  A rare occurrence, but embraced with arms wide open. 

With the bright glow of the sun, several things happen in our city.  First, even though the temperture may still read 50 degrees, you can’t help but see teenage and college girls alike strolling around in shorts and tank tops, with not a jacket in site.  Flip flops, sun dresses, barefeet, and short sleeves abound.  It’s wonderful to get outside and soak up the much needed vitamin D, but really? It’s not summer yet! If it’s still below freezing when you wake up, I just don’t think it’s time for summer clothes to break out.  Unless paired with lots and lots of layers to combat the frigid air.

Anyway…

Another thing that happens is Seattle driving drastically decreases.  Not that Seattlelites ever claim to be good drivers.  In fact, we only really like driving when it’s partially cloudy out, with maybe a very light, almost unnoticeable drizzle dusting our windshields  just enough that our wipers need to be set on the lowest level.  However, when the sun comes out we are so shocked it sends many drivers crashing into either eachother, guardrails, ditches, or various other obstacles.   This makes for a messy commute.  If we aren’t getting in accidents, then we are most likely being blinded by the bright orb beaming into our eyes, making driving secondary and the survival of our eyesight our main concern.  Visors are quickly folded down and sunglasses are thrust haphazardly on our faces to cover up the gleaming sun.  We hunch down in our seats or stretch as high as possible to avoid the suns rays as we cruise down the highway directly towards it’s bright light.  Anything that helps us survive to our next exit or turn is welcome.  Obviously, this causes accidents too because it’s impossible to be fully aware of the road when we are so concious on avoiding the light, consequently shrinking our windsheild’s size down to a 2-inch by (insert width of car here) area. 

However, despite our inability to drive and our unreasonable attire, we love glimpses of spring.  It lets us know that winter doesn’t last forever.  That the darkness that has engulfed us for months will soon be shattered by sunbreaks and partially cloudy days.  That our mountain will come out of hiding and show off his dominant glory once again.  Light replaces dark…so fitting of our spiritual lives as well.  

Of course, Ryan and I had to seize the sunny days too. :) 

Note: These pictures make it look like it’s still gray here, but our excuse is that it’s a new camera…and we’re still figuring things out!