Seasonal Stretch

Spring rises and is reborn with a warm, glowing morning sun. May apples, marsh daisies, wild purple, yellow and white violets peek from the earth with round glossy greens and flowers. Wild scallions, stretch tall and gangly, feathering the air as the scent of onions wafts through newly cut grass. Birds sing and seek a mate then gather leaves, dry grass and twigs for nesting softness for new laid eggs. March winds gust freely from soft to subtle breezes as April rains imbibe the dry brown earth. Summer ventures back and forth on the sidelines, hot and burning to lead prolific days spewing vegetation, nature and humankind as they wait. Life draws in the sun and perspiration flows. It splashes frolicking in the orange, red sun failing to be chilled or cooled as activity and growth spurt forth. Summer stretches May to June, then July to August and September, The calendar, no longer true to its flow lingers on through Indian summer cool yet warming October. A scene of awesome palette colors displayed rising bold and brazen before an ice blue sky. The trees of autumn appear in softly blushing colors to November and December bleeds of hues peaches, oranges, apple reds and umbers Chrysanthemum, asters and blooms bid farewell and a last summer goodbye to fall. Winter drops down, released by a cold, north wind that freezes what remains at the change of seasons. Barren, naked trees and empty gardens bland the once lavished earthen shades. Prior months now fade away hardened by December and January chills prepping for the New Years snow It lags January into February bringing accumulations of ice and snow. Everything sleeps, resting huddled low in earth and home waiting patiently for spring to return.