The Long Wait

It will be over by this week is what we have been telling every other person whom we speak with but it never seems to end. The talk starts as early as the end of February and the curiosity keeps escalating week after week. Mar 20 was the official start of the spring and we had a heavy snow that morning. Can anything make the arrival worse? Yesterday’s train ride with couple other friends started with this standard discussion of the season. I hate winter. When will it get over? .I hate to wear the gloves and this heavy jacket. My already small stature though for sure would burn more calories carrying the heavy woolen jacket, hates to do that beyond February especially with the couple of days of the 60 ‘ F’s in between. Why cant my company allow me to work from a warm zone like California for the winter and I would be more than happy to accept a pay cut in exchange commented my friend.
What is there in spring? All of a sudden, your heart feels good and so is your skin. The mind gets refreshed. No more of the heavy jacket. The air smells fresh without the artificial room sprays. The trees seem to be working extra hours converting all of the polluted Carbon dioxide into oxygen.The overtime pay comes to them in the form of rain.

I thought it was just us, the human beings waiting for the spring but the train pass which has a different color every month was yellow for april which coincidentally is the color of daffodils, the first flower of the spring.
I could see the tiny pale brownish-pinkish-green buds from the brown skeleton trees getting ready for the gorgeous bloom (cherry blossoms) in a week.



Why is it the flower first and then the leaves???? ……… What would you prefer, a bouquet of flowers or leaves? May be everything in this world hinted the trees that it is time for the bouquet of flowers after the dull-grey winter I came home and took a quick peek from the kitchen into the backyard and there I see…..the daffodils….Yes!!!!!….the spring has arrived for sure. After the posts on the baby blues and pink….It is definitely the time for GREEN!!!!!