The blues

This is what my walking commute to campus looked like yesterday: gray and sleety. At least when it snows in April, the result is photogenic. Both yesterday and today, on the other hand, have been dull, dull, dull, with a sludgy, sloppy mix of intermittent sleet and snow providing a yucky and alarmingly unseasonal backdrop. As I sit here at my desk, this is the cheery April scene I see on my calendar: will we ever see the likes of that again?

This is what my walking commute home looked like last night: a handful of poor souls doing laundry while the rest of the world slogged through the slippery slop. It’s difficult to get excited about much of anything when the skies are spitting and everything’s slushy. Today I’m the one doing laundry while playing another round of Perpetual Grading Catchup: what else are you going to do when the world outside is one big mess of Yuck?

Yesterday’s only aesthetic Bright Spot–and believe me, I use that term loosely–was this: a zoomed shot of the sugar-sprinkled hills that circle town. Had I the time and courage yesterday to grab the dog and some good raingear, I could have taken a sunset walk through pine trees rimed with white…but there was no sunset on a day without sun, and the prospect of returning with a slush-spattered dog kept me home. Last night, I spent some Quality Bonding Time with my couch while the skies continued to spit slush on my windows. Is it any wonder that these days in New England, almost everyone has The Blues?

This is my contribution to today’s Photo Friday theme, The Blues. If you think I’m the only one bummed by this week’s unseasonal weather, check out Leslee’s report from Massachusetts. You know spring’s a dud when you’re forced to post pretty photos from last year.