Health & Fitness
They're Here! They're Here!
I have that Snoopy feeling. You know — that feeling Snoopy must be experiencing when you see him traipsing across a meadow, a foot off the ground, feet flailing and ears flapping ...
Today is a day that I look forward to all winter long. As I exited my estate to run an errand I decided to take a tour of the south forty and as I rounded the first corner — there they were! The first crocuses of spring. As I gazed down on the golden blooms my spirits were immediately lifted and my soul lightened. The diminutive crocus by itself is not held in much regard as a flower but its import could not be greater, for the first crocus blooms of the year are harbingers of what is to come - Spring!
Their appearance each year lifts winter’s burden from my psyche and I am happy once again. No, happy is not the word- ecstatic is more like it. I have that Snoopy feeling. You know — that feeling Snoopy must be experiencing when you see him traipsing across a meadow, a foot off the ground, feet flailing and ears flapping with a smile so broad and wide that we know that all must be well with the world.
Out! Out I say, you sluggards! Quit that brick and mortar den where you have been laboring. Out! Out! Emerge from that vinyl covered cocoon that you call your home. Out! Out! There is something of import awaiting you outside. Don’t delay for there is only one first crocus of spring. All that will follow are merely pretenders to the one who rightly holds the title of — the first crocus of spring.