Spring Awakens

 Spring Awakens

Sleeping the long winter in suspended animation,

The maple awakens, bursts buds into light green beauty.

Leaves begin once again to breath the tree, inhaling carbon, exhaling oxygen.

The tree is one of many in our world in support of air-breathing beings.

Other life forms green-up the world - grass, irises, clover.

Deer, looking tattered, shed last year’s coat in April warmth, and graze in the clover.

Summertime feeders are up to attract our spring migrants - orioles and hummingbirds.

Two mated mallards have made our pond theirs.

They feed on seed dropped from our feeders, then float in the pond, always preening.

Other friends make their grand appearance, a pair of wood ducks in all their glory.

But, so much for writing, as I have beaks to feed.