How Sweet It Is To Have the Sun Shine Again!
Today I’m looking out my window (which really needs to be cleaned) at tah, dah, Spring! I can see the first baby leaves on the bushes peeking out of their bark shells, still brown but looking eager. The worn out winter plants, fragile and ready to be cut down to make way for petunias and lavender. Of course, the first wet peek at my good old daffodils and hopefully, the new tulips I planted last year, forty bulbs from Sam’s Club shoveled in in fifteen minutes at five o’clock one evening last fall. Not exactly gourmet gardening. My heart leaps thinking there’s actually going to be hope for green, for summer and bathing suits (not on me, but on leaping brown boys and round baby girls.) My puppy dog and I will be out walking away our winter fat. There will be that best of all of nature’s inventions, the spring morning with a misty chill in the air and the promise of the sun soon coming up warm and cozy. There will be rain, just enough for one more cup of cocoa, and then, that best