Leaves at Last

Leaves at last. Leaves at last. Thank glorious Mother Nature there's leaves at last.

The first clue should have been the quarter inch of green fuzz that appeared on my car last week, but somehow the significance slipped past my radar.

It wasn't until this morning that I realized distant tree lines had changed from dark, barren spikes jabbing at the sky to rounded scallops in a variety of greens.

Oh sure, I've been enjoying the blossoms of the cherry, pear, and dogwood trees for the past weeks; but it wasn't until sunlight hit the forest of green at just the right angle that I realized we are on the cusp of honest-to-goodness summer.