Spring Time

When I was headed off for my adventure in Alaska, I kept telling everyone that my seasons were just switched this year. Our winter was so mild in Minnesota that it felt like spring time, and here it feels just like our winter in Minnesota. But that is not the case.

My students are in shorts on a regular basis and enjoy how warm it is outside (note the high today was 16 degrees). The snow is starting to slowly disappear and every once and a while I hear snow birds when I'm outside. Everyone here knows and is excited that it's spring. Whaling season is here and school is almost done.

I know that it is storming at home right now, but I also know how warm it is there! I do miss the things the spring time has to offer in Minnesota, even the storms. I miss the weeks of sunshine, the smell of fresh cut grass, and trees!  Trees are probably the thing I'm missing the most as far as outside things are concerned.

One of our friends from the college proclaimed early one morning that he missed trees. "Sometimes, I just want to smell a tree."

That's my feeling of the day today, I just want to smell a tree. So all of you back home enjoy the Minnesota spring time and maybe even smell a tree...


Shout out to Evan Dunbar. He's not in Alaska... but he IS awesome.