Spring

How long before spring "springs"?  The world seems cold, although thrushes spend mornings whislting  mating songs, big-chested robins steal worms from the frosty garden and tiny tree frogs fill the night with a low, clucking call.  Skunk cabbages are doing their best to brighten the world with yellow flowers that resemble hands cupped together in prayer.  All these sights and sounds are signs of spring - so why is there no warmth in the air?

The good thing?  Cold mornings make a girl feel the need to wrap her hands around a warm cup of coffee, pull out the chair at the writing desk, drag a fuzzy black cat onto her lap and disappear into a flurry of words.