We've seen the geese winging northward, heard the frogs peeping, watched robins building their nests. Now, after a long, cold, drab winter, we should be coming out of our annual cabin fever and feeling great again. For some, spring fever is a nagging restlessness, an inability to sit still or stay in one place, which sends us off to hike in the hills.
Some people get an energy high - they're the ones attacking spring housecleaning and yard clean up.
Still others experience spring fever as a craving to get out in the sun and soak up some rays. Watch Elmira College students strip down to the bare essentials and spread out on the campus lawn come the first 65-degree day. For area gardeners, spring fever takes the form of an overwhelming compulsion to go out and dig in the frozen earth. O'Hern, director of the Arnot Art Museum, assuages his spring fever attacks by poring through garden books and magazines. He passes the long pre-planting weeks by spending time in his sunroom where he can look out at the bare garden and dream of summer glory.