We sit on the threshold of a new season. Surrounded by the Peeper frogs, who three nights ago were partying in the warm moisture, last night were rendered silent again by cold. Rumor has it that the Peepers have to “freeze” three times before spring is really here. A gorgeous red cardinal sits among grey, bare branches, feeling out the air. It tests its surroundings to see if it is time to be out from winter yet. Three crocuses have made their purple presence known in the chill of early spring. Daffodils and tulips with swollen buds just waiting for the right bit of sunshine before they explode color into the grey landscape of early spring.
I sit at the picture window in my kitchen surrounded by seedlings: tomatoes, green peppers, marigolds, lupine, broccoli. We wait. We rest. We enjoy the blue-skied, chilly-aired day that just feels like a spring-vault into the next season. The weather map promises warmer days and sunshine all week.
But this time of year even the rainy days bring promises of green grass and budding flowers once the skies clear. Color is starting to infiltrate the monochrome of winter, just more indicators that spring is on the way!
~sjt
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