A beautiful day is coming our way in Kentucky country today. The sun is shining. The mercury is rising in the thermometers. The flowers are blooming. Fishing worms might get drowned, and sweaters might get shucked. Spring is here and with it can come Spring Fever.
Do you have it? What is it? A time for lazing in the first warm sunshine of the year? A time for throwing off all responsibilities and going hiking or fishing? What does Spring fever make you want to do or are you like Mark Twain says in the following quote?
“It’s Spring fever…You don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!“ ~Mark Twain
Maybe it’s not just Spring fever that makes you feel that way. I feel that way a lot when I’m writing, when I’m trying to tell my characters’ stories. I want to write a good story. No, I want to write a story better than good. I want to write something that will come to life in a reader’s imagination. Something that will sing. Something that will be totally made up but oh so true at the same time. And I’ve always wanted to write so much that it does sometimes make my heart ache. So maybe I have writing fever.
Trouble is the fever – that aching to write a good story – doesn’t produce the words. That takes fingers on the keys. I’m trying to meet a quota of pages a day. Words would be better because you can cheat a little with pages. Five or six lines in and you can convince yourself you’ve done a page when actually you’ve got about twenty lines to go. But when the fever is on and then Spring fever comes knocking too with all that warm sunshine, sometimes it’s hard to ignore the sunshine outside while you’re trying to make the sun shine in your story.
What does Spring fever make you want to do?
It makes me ready to go walking down the creek. Whatever Spring Fever makes you want to do, if you’re in this part of the country, today is going to be a really good days to treat that “fever.”
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I miss Spring on the small farm where I grew up. Baby lambs and sometimes baby ducklings or chicks. Today in Utah, it’s been snowing about 4 inches, and a cold 38*! In a few month’s we will have hot days reaching 100*. Spring is my favorite time of year, yet it doesn’t seem like we have spring weather very long. When I get Spring Fever, I like to look at a map & plan a vacation. I also like to spend more time outdoors admiring the flowers
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It’s never as nice when it goes straight from winter to summer, Jolynn. Even here in Kentucky, we’ve had some years like that. But not this year. We’re having some nice spring days. Of course, we always have some chilly or cold days mixed in. We don’t have to worry about 4 inches of snow though. At least, I hope not!
What fun to take a spring fever vacation. 🙂 Maybe you can plan a trip somewhere there are flowers.
It makes me want to drag a lawn chair out and settle in with a good book.
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Ahh, that does sound about perfect, Sharon. Hope you have some spring days where you can do just that.
Spring Fever makes me want to get my vegetable garden out and to go fishing for some big catfish! Have a Blessed Day!
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Hope you are able to catch that big catfish, Sarah. I have never had the fishing fever although my husband used to enjoy going. I enjoyed staying home and reading. LOL.
Enjoy your garden planting when the time is right.
Spring fever makes me want to plant flower and garden seeds. It makes me want to be outside looking at all the green leaves coming out on the trees, and bushes bursting into bloom. Spring is my favorite season!
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Those green leaves are coming out fast, Connie. I’m always a little surprised when it seems the trees all get leaved almost overnight in the spring. The redbud are blooming now and the dogwoods will follow along.
Spring is a beautiful season.
For several years (before my divorce) I would take off with my camera to take pictures. I love photography and if there is a butterfly in sight or beautiful flowers I can get lost for hours. For a short time, I was actually able to mount, frame and sell some of my photos. For you it’s writing words, for me it’s expressing myself through angles and changing settings to make wonderful images people want to look at.
Unfortunately after my divorce, I lost a lot of that desire. A friend once told me that when I started taking pictures again, she would know I was alright once more. Hopefully when I am able to retire in about 18 months, that desire can resurface when I have the time to just take pictures. I hope so, I am so looking forward to see if it will happen.
You’re right, it is going to be a beautiful spring day in Kentucky. I work in an office where I do not have a window so much of it will be lost on me but I know it will truly magnificent!
Enjoy this beautiful day the Lord has provided Ann. I hope you’re able to get your quota written and enjoy some wonderful weather.
Happy Spring everyone!!
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I hope you didn’t have to work today, Pamela, so that you could enjoy this beautiful Sunday. My daughter has been visiting. So, I haven’t been on the computer very much. She went home today. Now I’m doing catch up things. But I did that a walk in that beautiful sunshine.
I do hope you’ll dust your camera off and take some more beautiful pictures to share.
It’s most definitely a beautiful spring day here in Kentucky! Ollie went barreling out the door, in hot pursuit of the squirrel that taunts him at the edge of the yard. Cheeky little fellow always wins though, because he sits next to the tree for fast escape. The geese on the lake were in a group meeting earlier…they sound like they’re full of gossip. Maybe they are.
I have spring fever of a different kind…I went on a spring fabric buying spree. Ohhh, the beautiful pastel eyelets and flower prints that filled my shopping cart! I’ve been busy fulfilling my daily quota of summer dresses. But every now and then, the view out my window beckons. Today’s sunshine had me thinking it’s a good day for washing winter blankets and letting them line dry. I think it’s going to be a good day for taking a break with a book in that sunshine too. But for now, my cutting table beckons me.
Have a wonderful day, Ann!
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You sound like a reader in a bookstore, Lavon, with your trip to the fabric store. Some fortunate people will be wearing those beautiful spring dresses you’re making.
We did have some beautiful days last week and today, Sunday, is nice too. My daughter has been visiting and so I haven’t been on the computer much. So that was a nice spring break too although I’ll have to buckle down and work hard next week to make up for it.
There’s a squirrel out in the backyard now, but I don’t think Frankie sees it. He’s probably napping in the sunshine.
Good morning, Ann! 😊
Spring fever makes me want to sit out on my screened in porch with a cup of tea and read the words you’ve worked so hard to get onto those pages. 🤗
Those first days that are warm enough to spend outside are the days nothing gets done in my house. Soon it will be too hot to be out, except for the early morning. So … a walk in the zoo; feeding the hundreds of geese at the pond; reading in the easy spring sunshine …. All of these things draw me away from my other tasks.
Have a beautiful day! ☀️🌺🌻🌞
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I love that, Janette, and I hope I’m coming up with words now that you will want to sit out there on your porch and read.
All those things you mention that spring sunshine inspires you to do sound wonderful.