Spring Comes to Trail Wood

Trail Wood #35 Earl Plato

Writer’s Note: This is the first day of spring at Teale’s Trail Wood home.
“In our latitude the first day of spring is only occasionally a spring day. The calendar spring, the astronomical spring of the vernal equinox, may arrive under sullen skies, with cold rain, or with a blizzard hurling its snow from the north. But on this first day of the season, as we walk down the slope of Firefly Meadow to the pond, the sun shines, bluebirds call, the fields are free of drifts. The brooks run high with melted snow. The spring of the calendar and the spring of our woods and fields begin together. The weather may alter in the night. Snow may come again. But today the sun’s rays pour down from an unclouded sky. Warmth is winning over cold. The optimism of spring is in the air.”
Writer’s note: What will our March 221st be like? Any guesses?