Spring Colors
Spring is my absolute favorite season of all. After being forced to live and eat indoors for what seems like an eternity during the winter, Spring holds the promise of endless days living outside, eating outside, sitting outside... just being outside!
I tend to notice the Spring long before most people. In February, you can already see the swelling buds on hardwood trees... even while the twenty degree air whips by in twenty mile an hour gusts! In March, from a distance, you can see the faint pastel colors tinging the treetops. And in April, seemingly all at once, the trees take on a myriad of colors. The most obvious of colors are the flowering blooms of the magnolia, cherry, pear, and plum trees. Everyone sees those.
But there is an amazing array of colors on non-flowering trees too! When the buds burst open with the beginnings of what will soon become leaves, they do so in a rainbow of colors... many shades of yellows and greens, and of course the striking reds that will catch your attention from a mile away! Like in the image above.
As I send this post out, most of those colorful bursts have turned into fresh young leaves of varying shades of yellow and green. A sure sign that you will find me eating, sitting, and just plain living, where I belong... outside!