oopsy, one month..

…has gone by.

I promised I wouldn’t write anything until I had something other than snow to complain about. Or something to not complain about. I was inspired Monday, but that’s because Monday it snowed. Yes, Monday, May 4th.

But now it is Wednesday and not snowing and 60 degrees and I am not complaining. I am terrifically and madly and marvelously inspired to announce the spring. She is here! The ground is now peppered with spots of green, emerging from the damp depths of the long winter, the landscape is scattered with tiny miracles. Little crocuses are trying to pop their heads up, to peek at the sunshine. Even the collapsed aspen in our yard has risen from the dead! Poor little dear was flat on the ground when the heavy snow melted around it, but in only a few days, it has begun to lift, and lift, and now it stands, the burden of cold wetness no longer holding it down.

Meanwhile, it is impossible not to feel this same merriment taking place in town, the smiles at the post office, the jovial faces on the patio. T-shirts! Flip-flops! We have finally freed our closets!