Spring
Spring is all about everything budding, sprouting, unfurling, and hatching. It'sabout muddy stream banks and returning flocks of birds. It's about warm days and cold nights. For those who live here it's about the end of winter!
It is a season that doesn't get much credit but is as beautiful as fall. The mountains are just as colorful as the leave unfurl in shades of burgundy and pale green. Green hay pops through last years tawny leftovers. Wild leeks, dandelion greens, and fiddlehead ferns populate the forest floors to the joy of foraging locavores. The newborn animals are everywhere, from a gaggle of turkeys, twin fawns, to lambs in the meadown and gooslings pondside.
It's the time we return to hike
the woods and reacquaint ourselves with how the winter has changed them and made us another year older. Fishing and turkey season open. Hiking trails are being cleared. Gardens centers are full of plants waiting for the last frost to pass so they can start their work. BBQ grills are getting cleaned off. And farmers markets are springing into gear. So there's no huge festival or exciting theme park - but this time of year there is plenty of solace and comfort in the reawakening of mother nature all around you.
