Thursday, March 03, 2005
March Animals
Everyone's heard that old saying, "March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb."
This is supposed to mean that early March has bad weather, but by the end of March, spring is on its way and the weather is improving. But that's not the way I always understood it.
See if you can follow the analysis I made of this saying when I was very young. Picture a lion. What color is he? Yellow, gold. He's strong and assertive. And if you look at a male lion head-on, doesn't his head, circled by his mane, look like the sun with its rays beaming out? Sure does. Now picture a lamb. What color is he? White. He's soft, fluffy, and quiet. Just like snow.
Therefore, the lion represents nice, sunny weather, and the lamb represents cold, snowy weather. I always misunderstood the saying, thinking that it meant that March starts with good weather and ends with bad weather.
And two days ago, on March 1, when I woke up to find five inches of fresh snow in Cambridge, it sure looked a lot more like a lamb than a lion to me. I stand by my childhood interpretation.
March comes in like a lamb, and goes out like a lion.
This is supposed to mean that early March has bad weather, but by the end of March, spring is on its way and the weather is improving. But that's not the way I always understood it.
See if you can follow the analysis I made of this saying when I was very young. Picture a lion. What color is he? Yellow, gold. He's strong and assertive. And if you look at a male lion head-on, doesn't his head, circled by his mane, look like the sun with its rays beaming out? Sure does. Now picture a lamb. What color is he? White. He's soft, fluffy, and quiet. Just like snow.
Therefore, the lion represents nice, sunny weather, and the lamb represents cold, snowy weather. I always misunderstood the saying, thinking that it meant that March starts with good weather and ends with bad weather.
And two days ago, on March 1, when I woke up to find five inches of fresh snow in Cambridge, it sure looked a lot more like a lamb than a lion to me. I stand by my childhood interpretation.
March comes in like a lamb, and goes out like a lion.
Comments:
Of course, if we're talking about Cambridge, March comes in like a lamb and goes out like a lamb, and April comes in and goes out like a lamb, and May comes in like a lamb, and if you're lucky, the lion might show his sunny head by the end of May. But the weather might not be lion-like till June.
That's why we're moving.
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