Life in Geezerville: Northern Edition

The location of Geezerville has changed. No longer at our southern winter location, we are happily enjoying early early spring at our summer location. It's funny... I see the same geezers in both places. All of us are seeking that perfect balance of "late spring to early fall weather" thru out the year. Geezers like living in near perfect weather and we think we have found it. 

Geezers are active seekers of the sun and fun. We travel from Juneau to Yuma; Calgary to Palm Desert; New Hampshire to Florida all in an effort to stay comfortable. It's an interesting circuit and once you know about it, we are easy to spot. We are the people with an out of state (or province) license plate. We are the people who don't own any coats. 

Some of us are in RVs year long and move from one campground home in the south to one in the north. Others have an RV and a house; and others have 2 homes. No matter, we are geezers on the move and we are a force to be reckoned with. When we are "in town" everyone knows it and the word is out that the "snowbirds have arrived."

Normally we arrive in mid-May, so we don't see the ugliness of this tween season. Wendy calls this the "stick season" and she's right. The snow is about melted. The aspens are white trunks without leaves. The dead leaves that fell after we left lay limply on the ground, all brown and wilty after being covered by snow for several months. The wild rose bushes look like a stack of naked twigs, while the cone flower stalks are long and brittle and stripped of color. Needless to say the valley floor is not that pretty right now. It's full of sticks as everything is still asleep from the cold of the winter

On the other hand, the 9000 foot mountains that ring the valley are bright white and beautiful. The rivers are babbling with lots of water, and the beavers are doing their job of damming them to form little lakes. The deer in the naked aspen forest are there but hard to see. I was looking at the aspens and not seeing anything but the patchy white tree trunks  until I spied a movement and out of nowhere there was a group of deer. They blend in perfectly.

So northern Geezerville will be the focus of my next postings. It's so early that the RV park is still closed. The full-timers in the valley are telling us stories of their winter. They are reminding us that the second season of the year coming. Geezerville North has 2 seasons: winter and company. To that end, we're going to be having company soon, and there's lots to do to get ready. 

So as the snow is melting because the temps are warming, we will welcome spring allergies all over again. We will see the sticks transform to shrubs and bushes and the leaves will grow on the aspens. The quaking aspens will quake once again. One day soon, all the berries will blossom and slowly the wildflowers will paint the landscape with bright colors. It's time to enjoy the rebirth of the land. Remember, we're all in this together.