It’s crazy snowing this morning!
Snow in Traverse City, Michigan
I flew into Traverse City in northern Michigan last night, where I’m serving as a mentor for a Young Playwrights Festival run by the Wharton Center. You can’t really see in this quick shot out my hotel window, but these are big beautiful snowflakes pouring down.
This is what I left behind in New York City: Broadway in bloom.
Morningside in bloom.
Wow.
Well, the work the young playwrights are doing will warm us up.
Tonight the dog and I took an early evening stroll in Riverside Park.
The park is just about perfect right now. Many branches are still bare, letting the river show through.
Some trees on the Cherry Walk are budding,
while others are blooming.
We left the river walk,
and headed back up to the center promenade.
Like the river, the city shows easily through the trees.
I love the seasonal layers, daffodils coming up through last fall’s leaf litter
bud-fuzzy branches,
forsythia,
lovely white blossoms,
and magnolias.
In a month or so, views of the river and the city will be obscured by layers of lush green leaves. But meanwhile, I’m loving spring.
