The Necessity of Spring

I’m a four season girl and I have to talk about the necessity of spring. More like is it necessary to note spring on the calendar if it doesn’t arrive until we don’t know when?

Spring really starts out subtle. How subtle, well it is a date on the calendar really (with the word spring typed in the box), and nothing in particular starts to happen with the exception that the days get longer.

And unlike Christmas or Thanksgiving, while the word spring is clearly marked on the calendar it is not assured to happen just like that on that day. Christmas Day you open presents, Thanksgiving Day you eat turkey and on spring you? Exactly, all this after the pomp and circumstance of the greatest predictor of the length of winter….Groundhog’s Day and soon to be followed by April Fools day.

Sometime before, during and after the start of spring the only other sign of spring approaching is crappy weather. Sometimes it is rain in the guise of a wintry mix, or it is rain, or it appears to be a fog, or perhaps it graduates to a more pleasing heavy dew, a pretty mist shimmering in the sunrise…. okay there is a lot of moisture accompanying spring.

Buds start to form on the trees; maybe you can’t see it because of all the heavy wetness in the air. Relax; the air will be filled with pollen soon, rest assured you won’t be able to breathe either way. As we take a few precious moments to relish in the extended daylight that spring dutifully provides and lose total track of all time (I really should be fixing dinner now), we hear the birds fighting for nests on the porch in the eaves much like the children that have a spring break for some unknown reason other than it is more of a challenge to drag their butts to school during winter weather. How invigorating.

Somewhere in all this messiness is Easter, yes Easter flanked by Spring and Mother’s day. God I love spring!

Is there one thing that stands out for you in spring? Something you look forward to or NOT?