Spring-like weather

It was fairly warm out yesterday, at least for early March, with temperatures in the lower 50s. It felt really great, although the wind did pick up and it clouded over as the afternoon went along. Still, the promise of spring was easily believed.

I went into a Super Fresh to pick up some garlic and mushrooms in a neighborhood heavily populated by college students. And as many years as I've been shopping there, it never ceases to amaze me how quick they are to break out the shorts, flip-flops and leave the jackets behind whenever the temperature makes it above, oh, 'bout 45 degrees Fahrenheit.

I never understood it back when I was that age, and I still don't get it. Part of me admires them--I'm always cold--see me when it gets to be another 30 degrees warmer before I leave the house in shorts, thanks--but part of me wonders if it's some kind of non-verbal braggadocio.

How many of them are sneezing and sniffling today, I wonder. It's back to being winter again--windy and cold, and it feels colder today than it has been at this temperature because we were treated to the warmth of yesterday. I doubt many of them, if indeed any of them, are out in their summer gear today.

Give me another 10-12 weeks and I'll get there, but for now, it's thermals and sweaters.