SPRING ETERNAL

Have you noticed, there is something about spring that seems to bring out the best in people..and the world? Everything looks better, and smells better, and feels better.  Take for instance my yard.  In summer it looks so so...lots of grass and pretty much nothing else, followed by fall which is nothing but leaves (and, oh yes, did I mention leaves?)  And well winter, you can pretty much forget it...it's just there, underneath the left over leaves of fall and the fallen tree limbs from those winter cold fronts that blow through almost every week.  But for a few blessed weeks in the spring, right after we rake and mow and trim...the perennials pop out and the Azaleas bloom in all their glory and the Jasmine flowers, sending out its' heavenly scent.  It is for those precious few weeks that I live in the midst of Paradise (well, as close as I will ever get to it in my yard).  Yes, Spring is one of my favorite seasons, though fleeting it is.  Sometimes I wish it could last forever....but then I think if it did, it wouldn't be as special.  So I'll just take my few weeks and be thankful.....and then go back to my raking.