Spring in January

I started blogging to tell the tales of Kentucky from my point of view. Well the Bluegrass is romancing me again. The past few days have been a warmly breezy 70 degrees. This is no New Jersey fake-you-out-in-March kind of day when you think Spring will be arriving shortly only to wake up to snow the next morning. Those days, though a nice reprieve, are far from being truly warm.

This is January people, and it is lovely! Folks are outside in their shirtsleeves, taking walks and looking up pleasantly puzzled at the sky. Record highs for this part of the country. Couldn't be better.

I know my southern friends are hardly impressed. They returned from a Christmas that was most likely balmy and beautiful. But this Jersey girl is reveling in the premature Spring.

"I'm living and breathing in a rat trap town
Trying to get over where the wall breaks down
Holidng my head up with my thin tired arms
And all my rainbow dreams"
-Steve Forbert