Snowbirds, 2023

We love Woodstock’s verdant, sumptuous summers,
Its cardinals, fireflies, and glorious orange-colored falls,
our comfy little cottage, cozies up to the Catskills,
The music, the hiking trails, creeks, and all you all*, but…

It’s starting to snow.
We gotta go.
Christmas in California. 
Snow birds migrate when seasons change
We pack the car and head home on the range
’cause it’s starting to snow.
We gotta go for
Christmas in California.

Sanger means citrus and green mountain winters,
February blossoms and wildflower springs.
Our river house framed by oak-scattered hills,
Family, friends, and the mighty Kings, so 

When it’s starting to snow,
We gotta go.
Christmas in California. 
Bears start to hibernate when seasons change
Load up the dogs and head home on the range
’cause it’s starting to snow.
We gotta go for
Christmas in California.

Snowbirds in Cali are osprey and eagles,
Sandpipers, pelicans, and seagulls at dark,
The permanent parrots in old Pasadena,
And all the pigeons in the park.

Here, it’s starting to snow.
We gotta go.
Christmas in California. 
Snowbirds migrate when seasons change
We pack the car and head home on the range

It’s getting way too cold,
(And we’re getting old), we’re off to…
Christmas in California.

[see you next spring!]

*you know who you are, wintering in Woodstock!