Spring

So, much of the winter looked like this...

There was lots of cake...

and hastily made wizard costumes...

and knitting...

and at some point I decided that the kid had to start earning her keep around here...

But then tiny signs of spring started to appear, and this is Michigan so we knew there would be one more big cold spell so don't get your hopes up yet Quinns, but it was/is lovely! Spring just can't be this lovely in places like California or Arkansas, the dark, cold days of staying inside are over, the grass turns greener, new, little lime-green leaves start appearing on the trees, tiny purple, white, yellow flowers. There was a quote banging about in my head that I thought would beautifully sum up the joyous, optimistic feeling of knowing that summer is on its way, there will be long days of cherries and blueberries and splashing at the beach...I thought it might be something Gatsby-ish, fresh, green breast of the new world-ey but I actually this is more like it...

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best -- " and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.-- Winnie the Pooh

I is very smart n stuff...is called spring pooh.

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We've been walking this trail for a year or so now and we were there in January on a sunny day with not much snow, and have been going back this past week too, oohing and aahing over all the loveliness.