It's been a long time coming...but I think Easter and spring are here!  As I was walking outside today, I saw my first crocus flowers peeking through the dried bed of leaves by our front door!  Just like the picture above, they remind me of new birth.  For me, it's time to shake off the dust and start blooming again.  What does that actually mean?  Well, I start diligently perusing the seed catalogs, making garden diagrams in my head, searching for those Cedar Waxwing birds, and feeling the need to 'go light'!  You'd think I would be tired of doing this every year.  But the truth is...I like the ritual of seeing nature with new eyes.  Just yesterday, I was watching a Robin puff up its feathers and nibble the berries off our Flowering Crab tree.  It stirs in me an awakening after months of nature's hibernation.  Like a dormant seed, I slowly stretch above my ground level to emerge with a fresh outlook.  Spring reminds me to 'start over' and give myself a new chapter in my life.  Thank God I have the 'ressurection' attitude in my heart and know with confidence that new things are abrewin'.  I shed the cobwebs in my brain and reach for youthful optimism that 'all is right with the world.'  It's SPRING and I'm blessed to be a part of nature's timeline!