This Wind!

Charles V was famous for the family chin. They all were, those Hapsburg Kings. This last week - all during Name-That-Famous-Person week - I’ve been in Florida, where the birds have chins like Hapsburgs too, the pelicans like this guy on the left anyway with those big leathery satchels pinned to their lower jaws.Everything is different in Florida: The grass is like Astroturf, the water smells swampy and the air – well, the air is so soft and wonderful it makes you practically pass out at the wheel at the wheel as you’re driving in from the airport.The day before we came here it looked and sounded like this outside the window:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INXqHbXyDyM]Yesterday it looked and sounded like this.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyz-Uz6-BVc]That wind, cold as it blows up north, is a vernal wind just the same and it’s bringing us spring. And if spring comes, can summer and a beach of our own be far behind?