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Provincetown :: Friday, February 10th 2012
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Crocuses on Pearl Street. |
Notes from Land's End: March 29
Come to Town in the Springtime
By Laura Shabott
March 27th, 2010
The astronomer Hipparchus (ca. 190-ca.120 BCE) determined that spring begins when the day and the night are equal in length. With the hope of sunshine on my face, this damp reporter walked around Provincetown in between raindrops to celebrate the new season.
| This spring, cure your urban cabin fever with a weekend in our village. |
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“When I see the crocuses, I know its spring” say the town’s gardeners. A member of the iris family, the crocus is the first flower to bloom on Cape Cod. The earthy types around here make an annual ritual of planting snap peas on the Monday before St. Patrick’s Day to insure luscious pods by June. Last Saturday on a gloriously sunny day, a bunch of gardener types went to the dump to drop off raked leaves and get free dirt. Like a collective mind meld, locals were out at the hardware stores, getting mulches and new gloves to mark the first day back in the garden.
The hardest thing is not to rush the garden. In nature, you can see that there is no hurry. A walk in Nicky’s Park is an adventure in the seasonal transition of the woods. Yesterday, the walkway had rain puddles so deep that a turnaround to another path showed the high water table in the marsh along Harry Kemp Way. Nicky’s pond, frozen only a moment ago, was brimming onto indigenous growth starting underneath wet needles and leaves. In two months time, the woods will be dense again.
|  Nicky's Park on Harry Kemp Way. |
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A walk around the woods of Provincetown is cool, crisp and there are no bugs. And people in great numbers are out walking the beaches and Commercial Street without freezing. “I’ve seen more people this week than in months,” said one hibernator. It’s a sign of spring to run into someone from town and ask, “Have you been here all winter?” and they nod, “You?”
Birds are returning from their winter haunts. Out the windows, robins get their worm and woodpeckers are feasting in the barks of trees and the songs of birds are everywhere. This simple joy says spring like no other.
What a great time to visit Provincetown! The traffic is light on a Saturday even with bridge work at the Sagamore or fly from Logan for a song. This spring, cure your urban cabin fever with a weekend in our village.
Artistic bon vivant Laura Shabott loves to write about Provincetown. A graduate of the SMFA, Boston, she is practiced in writing, acting and painting.
www.provincetown.com
www.ptown.org
www.ptownchamber.com
www.flycapeair.com
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