I looked up and was overjoyed...

I think I have been looking down at the ground too much lately, weeding and laying down mulch, because when I went out yesterday, it was a real shock to see so many trees in bloom.

Can it be that spring is beginning already?

It is such a joy to see these blossoms of a flowering plum against a pure blue sky.

When spring comes round, our apple tree

Is very full of flowers,

And when a bird sits on a branch

This is not, in fact, an apple tree

The petals fall in showers.

- Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -
- Emily Dickinson