Elm Seed Seaon, aka 4th Winter

I am ashamed not to have posted about the glories of spring before now! The crocuses have already come and gone.  

Pansies, catmint, hollyhocks, strawberry plants, stray snapdragons, snow in summer all wildly alive, cautiously sprouting new growth.  If you look carefully, there are bits of life stirring everywhere.

This week, there are fluffy sour-apple-candy poofs making a patchwork/ confetti sky over your head.  Textbook chartreuse swatches waving like demented wands at the ends of otherwise bare, brown limbs.

The weather is bouncing violently.  From 10 April days in mid-February, to a normal February day or 3 in late March.  It's a big unpredictable jumble.  And wind.  (That's not dust, it's enchantment!)

An apt symbol of hope and dismay.

Ecstatic growth, fertility, HOPE, and mild temperatures.