Whew! Had to get away from staring at words on a screen and thinking, thinking, thinking and take a stroll around the ‘loop’…up the street, and around through the forest, back out at the ‘green field’ and down the hill home after dropping into a friendly neighbor’s house—home to these bright faces:
Lots of eager shoots and blooms dripping dry after a lot of rain earlier in the afternoon. 
A fern unfurling in a field fairly bursting with growth…
The wild cherry blossoms are none the worse for the weather…
and look as if they were wedding attendants dressed in their fairest spring frocks—
Their petals have been scattered like confetti. Spring is celebration time!
This old stump along the way is one season closer to be overtaken by the growth it nourishes…
And not to be forgotten, these bright blue miniatures are blooming in a roadside ditch…
The rains are gone. Spring is bursting out all over!
Behold, He makes all things new…
–LS
“The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come and the voice of [ a thousand bull frogs!] is heard in our land.” Song of Solomon 2:12