The tree trimming guys were here yesterday and the day before.
The fact that they came shows they know their time for winter trimming is dwindling. Just as sailors are said to be able to feel the loom of the land, so tree guys can evidently feel the loom of spring: rising sap and mud are coming, oak wilt will soon be on the prowl. One swallow does not a summer make, and the tree guys don't make a spring, either. Yet the lengthening days evidently shook them out of hibernation to finally do the trimming contracted for last fall. Not spring itself, but a harbinger of spring, perhaps. A leading indicator, as the economists say--a sign, an omen.
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