Spin Cycle

3-11-06 SHORT HILLS: Yesterday was the first warm day of the season. When I was walking around outside, without a jacket, it was warm, and when the wind gusted, it wasn’t a cold blast. Viburnum and hydrangea have little leaves out, and forsythia buds have yellow tips.

I get a sense of the inevitability of the seasons moving ahead, of the momentum of the greenery beginning its show and spring at hand, summer is waiting in the wings, and even fall only six months away. All of it, of course, due to the tilt of the earth’s axis and the regular daily revolution and yearly orbit adding another season to the previous five billion or so. This spin cycle is slowing changing as it does in its own longer cycle.