Here in my small place in the world Spring is arriving early. The days grow longer, the shadows shorter; the earth is waking from Winter's slumber & new hope is in the clean air carried on the gentle scent of the cherry blossoms in our backyard. I breathe it deeply.

"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes." E.E. Cummings