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| mimosa tree in flower New Jersey, USA |
Did I mention that it's spring? Perhaps if you already live in a year round warm climate the fact that spring is now happening here in Nova Scotia doesn't really register as something worth celebrating? Just try to imagine living with freezing temperatures, so bone deep cold and damp that everyone you know gets sick at least once or twice during the long winter, weather so hostile that there are days your dogs turn back shrinking from the suggestion that they go outdoors, and these dogs are bred in Labrador, an even colder spot than Nova Scotia!
Then there are the beautiful days and nights of diamond like snow falls. White flakes of snow create deep drifts in front of your doors. The time may come where you need to climb out of a window because your doors are frozen shut with these icy piles of snow against them to ensure that they stay closed. It happens. It gets dark at 4:30pm in the depth of winter here so you lose 5 hours of sunlight every day which makes everyone a little depressed.
Now do you see why a few more hours of daylight each day and being surrounded by frozen mud and one half inch of a flower stalk breaking ground in your garden is cause for celebration? Spring is here! Hurrah!
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