All in One Day!

 There's a joke in Ireland that we sometimes have all four seasons in one day. People sell T-shirts, mugs and other souvenirs with various imagery to go with the words. Sometimes, like today, it feels pretty accurate!

We left around noon to go to the library. I'd put on my sunglasses before we went, because there was bright sunshine, blue sky, and puffy white clouds. We started walking towards the lane that we take to cut up to the road the library is on. The lane is maybe 3 or 4 minutes from home. As we approached it, I looked at the sky in the distance and learned I wouldn't need the sunglasses for very long.

We started walking up the lane and I looked in the opposite direction from the dark sky.

At the top of the lane 5 or 6 minutes later, it had started to spit. By the time we turned onto the road the library is on, it was noticeably cooler in the rain and snow flurries. 

We walked on and it stopped. We were dripping a bit when we got into the library, but we returned our books, picked up the ones that were in, and chatted with the librarians about the new system they have just changed to--it is, as one would expect, a hot mess. It's always an oven in there, so it was a relief to get outside again. Oddly, the first thing I heard when I walked out the doors was the mooing of a cow. No idea where the cow was, but s/he had more to say as we started walking home. The lane was a different experience this time--blue sky, puffy white clouds, and the deep blue sea.

A few minutes after we got home, the rain and snow flurries were back. It's been going back and forth like that all day. We didn't really have a winter this year, but I got a few minutes of it today when there was something for everyone. I'll take what I can get. 😀

I hope it's a nice day in your part of the world, whatever the weather.