Up earlier than usual. The air is calling.
Spring air is different from winter air.
Tree branches are serrated with red bud teeth.
Later, they grow chartreuse fuzz, making pale green auras in the sun.
Summer leaves will be dark, shading, but spring leaves let the light through.
Spring trees glow in the daytime, spreading translucent canopies.
The birds are out, racketing their news from bush to branch. Cats are still curled up on fire escapes. They are in no hurry to get up in the cool morning air and they know it will warm up later. They are watching the birds. They can wait.
The air is clear, clean cool. The smells are tiny smells, little whiffs of green, a ribbon of brown mud, the blue smell of the sky. Midday is mild enough for short sleeves. I eat my lunch outsider, sitting on a warm brick wall. The breeze lifts my hair and riffles the edge of my skirt. I have to squint. Everything tastes better.
Until today I had been too huddled in my winter coat to notice the quiet coming of flowers. Suddenly, daffodils smile in my face, parrot tulips wave their beaky petals, and fragrant white blossoms are pinned to dogwood trees like bows in a young girl's hair.
The evening is soft. I need my thin jacket.
It's still light out when I walk home from the Metro.
I could walk for hours.
Like a kid playing street games with her friends, I don't want to go in.
When I went to work this morning, I left my windows open.
Spring came in through the screens while I was gone.
It's as if I had used a big sliver key and rolled back the roof like a lid on a sardine can.
The indoors smell like the outdoors.
It will be like lying down in the grass to sleep.
The sheets are cool. The quilt is warm.
The light fades outside my windows. This weekend, I think I'll wash my car.
相关单词：translucent
translucent解释：adj.半透明的；透明的
translucent例句：
The building is roofed entirely with translucent corrugated plastic.这座建筑完全用半透明瓦楞塑料封顶。
A small difference between them will render the composite translucent.微小的差别,也会使复合材料变成半透明。
相关单词：canopies
canopies解释：（宝座或床等上面的）华盖( canopy的名词复数 )； （飞行器上的）座舱罩； 任何悬于上空的覆盖物； 森林中天棚似的树荫
canopies例句：
Golf carts with bright canvas canopies wandered the raingreen fairways. 一场雨后显得愈加葱绿的高尔夫球场草地上，散放着一些带有色彩缤纷的帆布华盖的高尔夫小车。
Rock permitted seven canopies, cornices floors, decorative glass, Ambilight, momentum magnificent, magnificent. 七檐佛殿背倚山岩，楼层飞檐翘角，殿顶琉璃装饰，流光溢彩，气势恢宏，蔚为壮观。
相关单词：squint
squint解释：v. 使变斜视眼, 斜视, 眯眼看, 偏移, 窥视; n. 斜视, 斜孔小窗; adj. 斜视的, 斜的
squint例句：
A squint can sometimes be corrected by an eyepatch. 斜视有时候可以通过戴眼罩来纠正。
The sun was shinning straight in her eyes which made her squint. 太阳直射着她的眼睛,使她眯起了眼睛。
相关单词：huddled
huddled解释：挤在一起（huddle的过去式与过去分词形式）
huddled例句：
We huddled together for warmth. 我们挤在一块取暖。
We huddled together to keep warm. 我们挤在一起来保暖。
相关单词：petals
petals解释：n.花瓣( petal的名词复数 )
petals例句：
white petals tinged with blue 略带蓝色的白花瓣
The petals of many flowers expand in the sunshine. 许多花瓣在阳光下开放。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
相关单词：fragrant
fragrant解释：adj.芬香的，馥郁的，愉快的
fragrant例句：
The Fragrant Hills are exceptionally beautiful in late autumn.深秋的香山格外美丽。
The air was fragrant with lavender.空气中弥漫薰衣草香。
相关单词：metro
metro解释：n.地铁；adj.大都市的；(METRO)麦德隆(财富500强公司之一总部所在地德国，主要经营零售)
metro例句：
Can you reach the park by metro?你可以乘地铁到达那个公园吗？
The metro flood gate system is a disaster prevention equipment.地铁防淹门系统是一种防灾设备。
相关单词：sliver
sliver解释：n.裂片，细片，梳毛；v.纵切，切成长片，剖开
sliver例句：
There was only one sliver of light in the darkness.黑暗中只有一点零星的光亮。
Then,one night,Monica saw a thin sliver of the moon reappear.之后的一天晚上，莫尼卡看到了一个月牙。
相关单词：sardine
sardine解释：n.[C]沙丁鱼
sardine例句：
Every bus arrives and leaves packed as fully as a sardine tin.每辆开来和开走的公共汽车都塞得像沙丁鱼罐头一样拥挤。
As we chatted,a brightly painted sardine boat dropped anchor.我们正在聊着，只见一条颜色鲜艳的捕捞沙丁鱼的船抛了锚。
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