Here’s how I know.
1.
We’re having more warm days than cold. Thank
heavens.
2. Birds are flying all around the outside of the
house and the inside, too. I can’t keep the bird feeders filled fast enough;
fill it one day and it’s empty the next. Mostly we have sparrows (or wrens,
hard to tell the difference), bluebirds (my favorites) and a few red headed
house finches. Front yard, back yard, they’re all over the place. Inside the
house, Charlie flies back and forth in front of the window to show the bluebirds
that he, too, is a bird and can fly. He sits in the window and chatters to them
all morning long.
3. Butterflies are coming back. We have big black
and yellow (possibly monarchs) that come to a bush right in front of the window
by the kitchen table in the summer. They’re starting to come back now that it’s
warmer. They fill my heart with joy as much as my bluebirds do.
4. This is a rural area and every road has fields
and ponds at almost every house. The fields are now plowed and about half have
been planted. Corn seems to be a popular crop this year. Across the street from
us, there’s a field I see when I sit here at the computer. It has been plowed,
but not yet planted. Every year gives us a chance to guess what will grow this
year. Last year was peanuts, the year before was tobacco. This year, time will
tell. For now, geese, ducks, and other birds are having a ball landing in the
field and swimming in the adjoining pond. There’s always something going on
outside.
5. The state is slowly opening up. Yesterday we
actually went to a restaurant at noon, went inside believe it or not, and sat
at a table and got waited on! It was so nice not to go through a drive thru and
eat in the car while juggling food on our laps and being able to move only a
few inches to get to our drinks in the console cups. We could not believe
how pleasant it was to go in a restaurant and eat, something we used to take
for granted.
6. My sister has gone back to her home, so Stewart
and I are now enjoying life as a married couple. Of course, spring has nothing
to do with that, “young” love is alive and well any time of the year.
