hello friends. it's me again. it has been a while since i've written. this winter has taken it out of me. but all that cold and snow is over. there is a certian smell in the air. the breeze carries that green smell. the smell of new life, the world is being transformed once again. form the glaring, cold gloom of winter to the warm growing spring. everything seems to be coming back to life. the trees yawn and strech thier branches bursting with tender green leaves. the flowers raise thier heads in the soft endless rain to see what is going on. the robins, long a shure sign of spring, do their dance. chirping and jumping to and fro seeming to announce the coming of warmer weather. across the street in the small pond, a mother duck leads her ducklings into the water carving lazy circles in the surface. a man and his son are fishing on the bank. not so much to reel in a fish, but to catch a memory. a memory of time spent with the ones you love. the first time you cast a line, the first fish that makes the boy squeal with delight, showing him how to remove it from the hook and then releasing it to grow bigger. shining moments never to return but long remembered by both of them. a little girl on her first bike ride without training wheels. her mom holding on to the seat to cries of "don't let go!". but like all parents mom does let go, but only to sow the seeds of independence in her child. she knows she will have to let go someday for much longer than a second. but the joy of seeing her child free, face turned into the sun, handlebar streamers flapping in the breeze, laughing out loud will be her memory of this season. for me spring lifts my spirits. the feeling is hard to describe but we all know it. not so much seen or heard, but felt. have a wonderful spring everyone!