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It is that time when anticipation is peaking.  Morning brings with it the promise of something yet to come.  Kind of like Christmas morning just before rounding the corner to see the tree in all its glory, the presents spilling from beneath its branches.  My stomach has the faintest hint of butterflies.  I pull back the curtains and its there!

 

Yesterday’s monochrome landscape has added a green hue.  The crispy straw-like ground cover is quickly being replaced by grass.  Trees are showing the faintest sign of that transparent red outline ~ an assurance that buds will soon appear.

 

Squirrels leap across the grass collecting treasures to make their nests comfortable.  Seemingly oblivious to the world around them, robins dance across the yard.  And the bugs!  Already zigging and zagging through the air!  The cat, with eyes tightly shut, sits as still as a statue on the porch rail.  Still, until the sound of a bird causes her eyes to open wide and muscles to ripple, ever alert.  The dog lies on the lawn, with head raised, eyes squinted and nose twitching a mile a minute, as if trying to capture every smell wafting across her world.

 

The scent of wet earth, tree bark, leaves and brush released after being held prisoner by the snow and frigid temperatures.  Sounds also fill the air.  Birds are singing.  The woods rustle as creatures scurry to and fro.  Equipment hums, working to clear brush and limbs fallen victim to the heavy ice of winter.  Fires crackle as they are fueled by that which has been cleared.

 

I sit here with my coffee, and though the air is still a bit chilly, I take in all of these things and revel in the anticipation of Spring!

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