I’m thinking Spring-time thoughts already, even though I know that we are a few weeks away from the vernal Equinox (March 20th/21st) in the Northern Hemisphere and September 23rd in the Southern Hemisphere. Thoughts of green grass, trees coming alive… birds chirping… the dawn of new love… alas I am a romantic at heart!

It’s the weather that has to be taken very seriously to be sure. Once spring does roll around for sure, some major changes to our planet take place. Case in point: the axial tilt of the Earth is toward the sun (similar to the summer season). More sunshine, thermal energy and daylight hours means that the rivers and streams start to flow with the runoff from the snow-melt, the birds begin their return and fixate on the new budding blossoms that awaken from their winter slumber, and the gentle morning dew and the songbird’s lyrical notes are overhead in joyous praise of the season’s return. Springtime thoughts, for me at least, seem to evoke the poet in me.

I pinch myself. Wake up. This is the month of February – not May. And March can be so temperamental, sometimes seemingly tame and inviting and then other times volatile, unforgiving, raging. Her persona remains to be unveiled to us all.

But I dream of her - and dream good thoughts I do, sweet, gentle lady Spring.