It is spring again The earth is like a child that know poems by heart. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Our calendars today mark the first day of spring. Spring is a season of reawakening in our plant world, birth in our animal world, and the promise of warmer weather. In our markets, it is a time of spring vegetables grown locally or at least here in the US. Spring brings rejuvenation to the world. Hallelujah! After the adverse conditions many have experienced from winter, it hopefully will be a reprieve, a pause to catch a breath before the challenges of spring show their signs.

Where we live spring gives us beautiful moments of birth in our animal population. We have been fortunate to observe newly born elk and deer. I marvel at the care of the cow and doe for their calves and fawns. Once they give birth it is full mode into survival. The cow and doe clean their young and eat any evidence of birth to protect their young from the coyotes and mountain lions in our area. The young on wobbly legs nurse and gain their strength quickly and then mom and young are gone. It is truly an amazing event to observe. I am very grateful to be an observer to this wonder and in that I am grateful for the promise that spring brings.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.~ Anne Bradstreet

Peace.