thoughts of spring

Today it was nearly 45 degrees outside. Even though I know that Spring is a long time in the offing, I felt hope reawaken inside me, the way I always do this time of year. Driving to a friend's house yesterday, I noticed that in spite of the rainy evening, the sky was not pitch black at 5:30 PM as it had been. It wasn't light out but there was the barest shimmer on the horizon line, a footnote of sorts, reminding me that Spring is coming, slowly but surely. This afternoon Jeff brought home a box of clementines; winter medicine, I like to think of it. And so, inch by incremental inch, the sun is coming back and with it, the warm weather.

[caption id="attachment_366" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="my amaryllis plant, last summer."][/caption]