Hints of spring: snowdrops

The snowdrops in front of the building on West 214th Street are in bloom. One clump are wide open, and probably started blooming a few days ago; the other are showing buds, some of them plump.

Dandelions here at the end of January/beginning of February are an anomaly, but snowdrops are one of the first signs of spring. cattitude and I have also heard a robin in the park within the last week, but suspect it's wintering over, not a very early migrant.

Gym post, with Emilie

We rescheduled this from 3:00 to 4:00 at her request; I may get 4:00 again next week (depending on someone else's schedule). Her call caught me standing in front of the snowdrops (see previous post), and thus in quite a good mood.

I told her that since we'd made a lot of progress on the balance stuff, I wanted to work on my knees more, since this had initially been a knee rehab program. So, she had me do a few lunges. If nothing weird happens in the next few days, we'll repeat that next week and increase them over time.

( Read more... )