The Seasons

It appears that March came in "like" a lamb in Northeast Florida but not in all locations. After twenty years in Florida I still miss the change of seasons. When I worked in New York I lived in a high rise co-op apt. overlooking the Hudson River and The Palisades on the Yonkers/Hastings line in Westchester Co. The view and the sunsets were spectacular - we even had a morning rainbow one day which was a rarity. This was Washington Irving country and the flaming foliage in October was breathtaking. You could always tell when ARMY was playing a home football game at West Point as the yachts paraded up the Hudson in October and November. Then came the severe winters of 1977/1978 with considerable ice in the river impeding the tugboats pulling the barges upriver and the wind whistling down the Hudson Valley causing us to light our kitchen oven. But then came Spring. One April day I stood on the balcony and viewed a silver stripe running up the middle of the river. It was the annual shad run with the fish jumping and flailing on their way upriver to spawn above the Tappan Zee Bridge where the river widens. G.E. spent a lot of money cleaning up the PCBs and Pete Seeger used to bring his sloop CLEARWATER upriver to check on things and sell some pumpkins in the Fall. The river must have been clean enough for the shad. A lovely area to visit or reside.
tjs
Next - War is Hell