2 Snow Drops

Just outside the front door are two slim green stalks that droop in the chill of morning. For the last few days they have had small white blobs at the tips of their green stalks. Today, those white tips blossomed! Now, dangling from the tiny green stems are two star shaped white flowers, faces tilted shyly towards the ground, as if they are timid Geisha girls smiling into the fans of their feathery green stems.

I want to stop and admire them, but between Sugar's impatience and the biting cold wind, I resist the tempatation. They are the first signs of spring to fully open, to unreservedly admit that spring is here.

The mere sight of such encouragement makes my heart soar. Soon it will be warm. Soon it will be green. Soon the birds that are singing will not sound jarring against the gray skies and naked branches.

Just 2 little blossoms. And a world of hope.