Spring, is that really you?

It is a gloriously sunny and warm morning just outside my window! ☼ How incredible that sunlight can have such a strong physical and emotional effect on us. Thank you, Lord, for this simple delight.

I realize I am in the minority in actually embracing the winter season. As a hot-natured girl, it's a welcome relief to have days and nights that are cool. I also love that we begin evening rituals of eating supper in front of the fireplace. It's so cozy and romantic...the ambient light, the smell of real wood smoldering, and the soft crackles and pops. I hang onto those moments and don't want them to end. Then, after so many gray days, the sun rises and makes everything so bright and warm. It doesn't take me long to come around to the idea that spring might not be so bad after all.

It's exciting the way God renews the earth with color and temperature every few months. (Sometimes every few weeks, it seems, in the South.) Just as I like seeing the colors of fall, I'm also just as excited to see the first buds on the oak tree out front. I love the way there is a surge of people at Lowe's on that first pretty weekend. I am content as I can be when I get to replant the flower beds and the big pots on the front porch. Doesn't it make you feel refreshed and like you've got a clean slate?

Looks like it's going to be That Weekend, beginning today. Maybe I'll take a little stroll over to Lowe's, even if it's just to buy something non-committal...like striped monkey grass.

"This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it."
Y'all enjoy it, too!

~DPG