Springtime Amazement

Springtime is my season of amazement.

How can the sky be so blue
The mountains be so white
And the valley by so green?

Photograph by Tom Selfridge

There is a perfect line
Marking the change from snow to rain.

How can one little seed
Now burrowed in soil
Grow into a green stem
And create abundant colors, beauty
And flavors?

How can the icy fresh cold water
Find its way
Along the lovely streams and rivers
So abundant
In our hills and valley?
How can the green leaves
Tucked in their pods
Suddenly pop out
So large and colorful
From bare to abundant in just days?

How can the warm sun
Soak so thoroughly
Into my bare skin
After a winter where
Warmth felt so far away?

How can wildflowers emerge
In so many varieties
And vibrant colors.
One day there is nothing
And the next, fields of wonder.

The symmetry, freshness and beauty of spring.