Here in Philadelphia, Spring continues to tease. Although the flowers and trees are in full bloom, the weather has been gray, cold and wet. We are promised a sudden increase in the temperatures to the eighties this weekend, so we'll see.
Back in William Penn's day, the Delaware River teemed with Shad this time of year. The little-known-in-other-parts-of-the-country fish used to spawn near Lambertville New Jersey and New Hope, PA, nearly ninety miles up the river from Delaware Bay where they swam in from the Atlantic ocean.
Since the river has been cleaned of most of its industrial waste for many years now, the Shad have returned, as evidenced by the annual Shad Festival sponsored by the town of Lambertville. It is to be held this weekend and we wouldn't miss it. Here's to Shad Roe and local asparagus, the harbingers of Spring!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I am glad you started this blog -- I've always loved your turn of phrase, phred, and 'Philly Mignons' is no exception.
ReplyDeleteTechnology is a funny thing, speaking as a technologist...there's no question it makes possible wondrous things, but I wonder if it can sometimes lower the bar by making it too easy to settle for the banal and the expedient.
What might Samuel Pepys's blog have been like, if he'd had the option? I can't really picture a collected edition of "Lord Chesterfield's emails to His Son". Few of that lot (with the exception, perhaps, of Oscar Wilde and Alexander Pope) might have done too well within the constraints of Twitter. On the other had, if a mediocre actor with no scholarship can gain a million followers, imagine what Alexander the Great could have done!
RV