Come on Spring!

I am suffering from the winter blues. I am so eager for spring to come. I definitely have the itch. Yesterday, I meandered out into my backyard with the intention of shutting my kid's clubhouse doors. Suffice to say, I ended up spending from 8:30 in the morning until 4:30 fluttering from one yard project to the other. I moved all my yard artifacts (that I am not sure how to get rid of); landscaping ties, cinder blocks, concrete pavers, old nasty firewood into nice neat stacks behind the clubhouse. I blew leaves into a four foot wall on one side of my house. Which I might add, as I type, the wind is whipping them back into their place in my pond and patio! I pestered my slowly waking gold fish in my pond by netting out pounds of old still beautifully colored oak leaves. I even transplanted some monkey grass plants to a new home around a tree. When I was finished, I drank a beer and surmised my completely satisfying day. A day's hard work with four callouses, dirt caked from head to toe, and pond water soaked sweats to prove it. My reward came this morning as I was seeing my daughter off to school. Like a framed picture in the middle of my lawn, which is the color of hay and has more bald spots than grass...was a beautiful golden flower standing tall in full bloom!!! Nature's sweet little token for my day's reflection of her.