I love spring. I was out bike riding with two of my girls today and thought about how much I love spring -- and so, not in any particular order, here are 10 reasons:
1. The temperatures -- so much of the year it is terribly hot here. It's a wonderful respite to have mild weather.
2. The colors -- the new greens of the grass and the budding trees, the colors of flowers.
3. Flowers and flowering trees. Some of this reminds me of spring in Michigan and the sweet alysum that my mother used to plant along the walkways -- alternating years were either white or purple. Somehow I would be surprised to see them newly planted, then they would take off in profusion.
4. Scents in the air -- a plus for someone who loves perfume. A friend has a beautiful purple flowering jacaranda tree -- the whole area outside her home smelled of these flowers yesterday. I made her come outside to smell them -- and I pulled down one of the branches to smell the flowers up close and personal. Very lush!
5. Bike riding -- one of life's pleasures. Tonight waxy yellow flowers of the plumeria trees scented the bike path.
6. Enjoying my porches. I especially love the front porch during a heavy rain. The porch is tiny, but it provides enough shelter that I am only wet with the spray in the air. I love the sounds and the smells of the rain. In earlier years I would sit on the porch during a storm with my oldest Chinese daughter who was at that time petrified of storms. She would sit on my lap, and we would see how beautiful it was, the lightening, the thunder, the rain -- how it couldn't hurt us, we were perfectly safe.
7. Birds singing.
8. Perfect weather -- I know I already wrote this, but it bears repeating twice. It is such a pleasure to get out in it. It's hard to stay inside. Yesterday we washed three cars and enjoyed doing it.
9. Listening to the frogs at night. They are currently 'singing.'
10. Newness of life reminding me of all the goodness that is on offer if we just get out in it and put ourselves in the middle of it.
How about you, what do you like about spring?
Karin
Originally posted 2008-05-04 20:46:01.
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