Brown out

Things are looking disturbingly brown outside. Without the cover of snow and before the warm rains and sun of spring, the world is.....brown. Not a good coffee brown, either, more of a beige brown. I spied some tulips beginning to push up, but no flowers anywhere yet.

No robins yet, either, but there are birds. Most especially, there are cardinals. The only real color in the landscape right now are the cherry red male cardinals. All the birds are involved in some serious flying and chasing and picking up bits of dried (brown) grass.

Today is supposed to be an outside clean up day where we pick up fallen sticks, rake some of the leaves off the flower beds, cut back the ornamental grasses that have swayed all winter and burn all the yard debris. It’s supposed to be, but there is a cold wind blowing and the temperature is not going to be as warm as we thought a few days ago. There is also a new Panera bread store down the street with fabulous pastries and a bag of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee on our counter begging to be used for the purpose for which it was made. So I have a choice between a beige brown landscape and good coffee brown with cherry pastries.

What to do, what to do.