sunshine and saturdays

then the sun shines and i remember why spring is my favourite time of the year...not early spring with its soggy, muddy, brown-ness, but the later spring with it's new, innocent greens, the one day when the trees are still only tinged in green but you know that the leaves are opening soon, the blossoms, the smells, the sunshine.  i recall how beautiful this yard is despite all of the work landscaping that MUST be done in order to truly make this a lived in yard and not one that's been abandoned (more or less) for 10 years.  i think of all the things that i can't wait to show ava...the way alfalfa flowers burst open when you poke them with a tiny piece of grass, the gopher flowers that grow wild throughout our yard, the pincushion cactuses that i hope no one steps on, the big willow that would be perfect to climb on.  i can't wait to explore our back woods (which are really just a tangle of caraganas gone to seed and muddying up the perfect rows that are still slightly visible if you care to look) with ava...to discover secret hiding places...to play games.  i can't wait to have a picnic in the grass, to lay on our backs and watch the clouds roll by.  i can't wait for the lazy, sunshine-y days that make up the bulk of my own childhood memories. 

spring, we're waiting.