Monday, March 1, 2010

lions and lambs ...















don't know where the expression came from; "in like a lion, out like a lamb", with reference to what are commonly called March winds here in the northeast - probably the same guy that said "April showers bring May flowers" - and i hope he's on Obama's environmental advisory board and prepared to make revisions about global weather maladjustments ...
anyway, since i was a kid I'd look forward to the 1st to see what Mom Nature would deliver - and more often than not, it brought cold howling winds out of the north - today was no exception - how does it do that, because it wasn't howling yesterday? Man, if i were pagan and less scientific, i could easily develop a mythology about this ensconced with gargoyles of Rush Limbaugh and other skeptics of climatology facts - but I'm not, so I'll just marvel in the synchronicity of it all ...
more on mammals: "only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn" [martin amis - you can tell he's from Europe, because here in America we have stampedes, tea-baggers, and government regulated pesticides] ...