(Written on 01 September 2006)
Spring has arrived and mother nature is pulling out all the stops.
We rose this morning to a wind-still, cloudless sky. Birds a-flitting and bees a-buzzing, the neighbourhood quiet as we sipped our early morning coffee, admired the sun climbing above the Tararuas and savoured the sounds of spring.
The slightly longer days, encouraging the early spring blossoms, energising those that feed off the soon to follow bounty, their enthusiasm contagious, sweeping us up in the moment. Spring!
How can one trudge on a day like this!
Look around, folk in short sleeves, café’s abuzz, their outdoor tables surrounded by eager patrons, tittering to one another like those birds back home, flitting this way and that, exited, energised by the bounty that is Spring!
Even the Tasman has been infected.
That oft moping expanse of blue, lazily making it’s way to shore theses past few months, seems energised. Clean, long swells, proudly raising a white topped “Hello”, as it triumphantly announces it’s arrival on the shores of Spring!
Tomorrow it can rain, the snows can return and the wind can howl at us, but mother nature has reminded us of what awaits, and has restored our optimism.
Thank you, Spring!