Nature's First Green

Today was a very long one. Caroline had a minor surgery on her finger to repair a tendon. It's funny how even a minor surgery seems major when it's your child who has to suffer. We had to be in Springfield at 6am, so I was up at 4:30. Not fun!

The weather has been BEAUTIFUL the past few days and the all of a sudden the trees are flowering and buds are appearing on the trees. It's a very "Nature's First Green" type of day! I am going to try to post a few pictures tomorrow of the beautiful spring scenery.

Here's my favorite poem. I always think of it at this time of year. It's so descriptive of spring in New England. So simple but so completely true...

Nothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.