I Forgot

• the scent of outdoors when the soil is warm and you can nearly smell green things growing
• that perfect blue of the sky when it's warm and cloudless
• the happiness of green
• the lightness of wearing just one layer
• the pleasure of strolling down the street just to say hello to your neighbor
• the way the mountains nearly steam as the snow melts from them
• the sight of color and the lightness it brings to my heart
• the beauty of rosy cheeks
• the happy noise of kids playing outside: squeaking swings, rushing pedals, burbling laughter
• the way grass—still dry and crisp, but starting to soften and green—feels underneath naked toes

It won't last, of course. Tomorrow it will snow five inches, or hail, or fill that perfect blue sky with storm clouds. It won't stay 58 degrees forever.

But today the world has remembered: it is spring.

Comments

[heidikins]

I ate my lunch outside today and I still can't get over the sunshine, and the breezes, and the blue sky! Goodness, it's been a long winter!

xox