Transience

spring

One tiny gold crocus has opened in the front garden. I wonder when its friends will be brave enough to show their faces to the world?

Yesterday I rescued two clumps of interloper purple crocuses that had planted themselves smack-dab in the middle of the back-side lawn. They were too pretty to leave there as fodder for the lawnmower.

We also planted an apple tree in the front yard. Now we are no longer the only front-treeless house on the block.

I fell asleep last night to the sound of the neighbors' windchimes coming through the open window. The open window! How long has it been since I've been able to do that? It seems like a lifetime ago. (And, I suppose, in some ways it is.) Even though I'm now trapped in my office for the next 8.5 hours, the birds chirping outside my window and the faint breeze which glides across the back of my neck remind me that spring has finally come.

Posted by rachel at April 11, 2006 08:57 AM