14 minutes, 42 seconds

That's how long Ravel's "Bolero" runs on the CD I have. Today I played it as I drove home for lunch and it was 14 minutes and 42 seconds of unalloyed pleasure. The weather was sunny and warm enough to open two car windows. There were no cars on Lambert's Cove Road, which is a pretty road even if the trees are not budding and the grass is brown. But, today the grass was green, bushes were sprouting, flowers peeping up, trees budding and the volume was way up (which is how Bolero sounds best).