Italian apple:
one a day keeps the teacher away
The Italian word
of the day is PRIMAVERA (Let’s hope!).
Primavera (singular noun, feminine; plural noun: primavere).
English
equivalence: Spring.
Canadian
equivalence: I wish, eh!
Origin: Indo European
root with the meaning of “ardent”, “shining”; later, in Latin, from [primo] “beginning”
and [ver].
Definition: from an astronomical point of view, in the Northern Hemisphere,
it starts with March Equinox (around March 21st), and ends with the Northern
Solstice (around June 21st).
Some are the
indications that spring is behind the corner. Let’s take a look at some of them:
·
Extended
daylight hours
·
Temperature
starts rising
·
Most
of the trees stretch their proud branches to the sky to help their bids bloom
·
People
are smiling again
·
Nice
pastel color shirts matching the color of the sky, and generally speaking the
colors of Nature, are coming out from the closets.
Now let’s see
what happens here.
·
We
have more hours of light!
·
Fleet
of flip flops are already waiting behind the door of the backyard, but we need
to wait until the snow melts down.
·
The
trees, after the snow disappeared, look like small puppets with broken little
arms. The famous ice storm that hit Toronto last December, left its mark.
·
The evergreen trees keep being green and
straight as usual. For them, the melting of the snow is just like shaking tones
of dandruff off
·
People
sigh and pronounce sentences like: “We are almost there! Just a little bit
more...” Claudia smiles.
·
Our
pastel colored clothes are still in the closet buried under tons of odd gloves,
boots stained by the salt...with the only exception of those flip flops we took
out just in case...
·
At Dollaramas shelves are full of watering
cans, vases and pots, fertilizer, tin butterflies and happy ladybugs. We are
still looking for the salt to melt the snow!
Joking aside, I can truly feel spring in the air. Even though tomorrow
they’re calling for snow and the temperature should drop below 10, spring is
here! I met her at the pharmacy store. I was looking for salt, she was looking
for antihistamine pills...
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