Alright, I'm calling it:
FIRST DAY OF SPRING IN CHICAGO, today March 26, 2008 is pagan new years day.
Today there is plant-life pushing itself above the soil where there was none yesterday. I've been watching. No green until today other than the stuff that's always green--juniper, a few creepers and the plantain that never really dies.
So tomorrow is the beginning of the annual weed pulling, lest the plantains and dandelions take over the place.
At least we don't have kudzu.
It's a complicated point of high-energy theoretical logic that involves lots of heavy math, but you can never actually prove that the moment beyond this one will ever come or that the next moment will not be radically different from all the other moments that have passed before it. We can only say that IF things continue the way they have thus far, we MAY be able to make SOME predictions about things that will happen in the future.
If there should happen to be a future, which, ya never know.
Still, I had been hoping that Spring would come.
It's only...what, 5 days past the predicted beginning of spring...?
We got sprouts here. CONFIRMED SPROUT SIGHTING.
Happy New Year!
