Spring

The sun came out this morning and melted the rest of the snow. After lunch we put our tennis shoes on and walked to the park, by the time we arrived we had peeled off our sweaters. The mud under the swing set was already sun baked so there was no cold slushy dirt to jump over before you could get the wind in your hair, just good dry terra firma and swings. The tulips haven’t been told it is spring but they’ll figure it out tomorrow or the next day, they’ll catch up to the grass soon. The birds are chirping, I can hear them because our house is quiet after four months of furnace noise.