Ah, Spring!

Today was once of those "spring-like" days that make me think of warmer climates and good memories. It smelled like spring and it looked like spring. Water was running down the gutters and torrents of water rushed like waterfalls off the roof. Everywhere you went there was water making the physical change from solid to liquid. AWESOME!!!!!


As I was driving in Rexburg, I saw a group of three women pushing strollers up the hill toward the temple. It brought back a flood of great memories of our days in Provo when we lived in married student housing. I thought of the fun we had pushing our strollers up the temple hill to the park. We had so much fun. Those strollers could be so heavy. Sometimes we could have as many as 12 moms forming our little train. We talked, laughed, and complained. Going back down the hill was so much easier. Wasn't that fun Emily and Diane? Ah, good memories. I could go into deep water aerobics but that's a nightmare.

Spring makes me think of flowers blooming in Provo, when they are supposed to - not 2 months late. My mother-in-law, so generously and kindly, lets me know as soon as her first crocus stretches it's leaves and opens it's purple head. It usually coincides with the day the snowplow comes along to move the slush in the road into my driveway. When the three foot snowdrift melts on my flowerbed, I have the hope that the tulips will awaken to share their spring colors with me. That won't happen until the end of April. By then mom's crocus and tulips will have lost their petals and the summer flowers will be planted. Ah, that's a good yearly memory.

Today I was missing Spring, in its proper place, and not in the summer. Ah, good memories. Hopefully soon, I'll have Spring realities. Can't wait!!!!