[I realize this photo hardly says "spring", but due to some unfortunate circumstances involving our still camera, Isaac, a soldering iron, 8 feet of 2-conductor lamp cord, and a 7.2 volt nickel metal hydride batterie, our still camera is currently at the Canon factory service center in LA. So I have limited older photos to choose from... at least it gives the idea of a flower...]
It’s here, big time. Spring, that is. And with spring comes this thing I call ‘the ahhhhhh factor’. It’s still getting down into the 20’s at night, sometimes lower; it can still be cold in the shade; and for sure you can feel cold fingers sliding down your neck if the wind is up and your collar is off guard. But step into a patch of sun, find a cozy spot in the nook of a rock or up against the grassy swell of a hill, and you can’t help but close your eyes, smile and say “ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….”
Green-up is just starting to happen all over the hills. It’s not even yet visible as a whole really, from far away, but if you are walking through the dry grass from winter and look down, you can see green shoots underneath. The grazers know it too. Elk and deer have returned to the lower hills, and of course the bighorns that never left.
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