Can I be grateful for Spring if I’m in an area that doesn’t
really have what you could call a change of seasons? Especially in an area
where Spring marks the end of the “rainy season”, and we’re smack in the middle
of a multi-year drought and we hardly had any rain at all this winter?
Well, deciduous trees are in leaf and ornamental fruits
are beginning to bloom.
Bulbs have been in flower for a few weeks; soon irises
will be out. I am absolutely cuckoo for bulbs.
And the spring camellias are
getting down to business.
Finches are crowding my feeder and soon the babies will
join them, squawkingly demanding to be fed by their parents. And the parents
will ignore them, because they’re clinging to the flipping feeder and all they
have to do is shut their little beaks and poke them through the mesh to get the
seed.
So, yes—I can be grateful for the promise of Spring.
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