Spring Time in PA

Pennsylvania Spring
May 24, 2008

Cotton ball clouds and rich blue sky made for a pleasant 65° day. A cool breeze danced thru new green foliage on the trees.
I went up to my favorite local park to finish reading “The Call of the Wild” while sitting at one of the picnic tables. You can learn a lot from the way authors write. Technique, story telling style, out of the ordinary descriptions of things or places is among a few of the author’s tools. It never hurts to have command of the written language also. I will now proceed to read “White Fang” and then onto Steinbeck.
It is well into springtime here in Pennsylvania, wild flowers are in bloom, farmers are planting the fields, and high school graduation parties are going strong.
Not too far from here is a State Park called Raccoon Park. Inside this park are woodlands that hold a treasured wild orchard that blooms around this time each year. The Lady- Slipper orchard is a natural beauty. It grows in several different species; yellow, pink, and showy. The showy Lady-Slipper is most rare around these parts and is found in bogs or swampland.
Cool spring air is blowing in the open window beside me. When the window is open the sounds of the evening clamor in. Trains rumbling down the track sounding the horn, riverboat fog horns, and nameless sounds not known are but a few. Later in the summer crickets will chime in. Then, early in the morning the song birds sing a blend of tunes, more so during spring than at other times of the year.