We are bracing for another cold snap, lows in the 20s for two straight days. We’ll cover plants and the washtub “pond,” where the mosquito fish live. I’ll tend the bird feeder before the norther hits. I promise.
It’s possible to work up a sweat while making such preparations. Wednesday’s high was 76 degrees.
The poet Sidney Lanier, seeking relief from consumption, visited San Antonio in the winter of 1872-3. San Antonians named a high school after him, a move that hasn’t worn well. Lanier, a Confederate veteran, was 30 when he came to town. Tuberculosis would kill him before he turned 40.
Lanier came to mind because of his remark about winter in San Antonio: “The thermometer, the barometer, the vane, the hygrometer, oscillate so rapidly, so lawlessly, and through so wide a meteorological range, that the climate is simply indescribable.”
I'm afraid it's true.
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