hanging on

We're having a mild winter, for the most part. There a a spattering of snow and ice last month, but since then, it's been unseasonably warm. I drove from work one day last week with the sun roof open. It was sixty degrees in January. Last year, around this time, it was closer to six degrees than sixty. I'm fine with sixty, mind you, especially if I have to keep going when it snows, but it's just kinda strange not to need a coat in the northern hemisphere in January.

Something else I noticed that's a little weird, too...some of the deciduous trees still have leaves on them. I never really noticed it before; the leaves turn brown but keep hanging on. I guess there just hasn't been enough wind to blow them away. Seems like they should have fallen to the ground or blown away a long time ago, but there they hang, kinda like that broken branch I talked about before (yeah, it's still stuck)...ghosts without the sense or will or ability to move on.