Ah the sights and sounds spring!

Shirley

There's nothing quite like it when you finally open your windows from the long cold winter months and let the warm breeze of spring blow through. The dust that has settled for months in unseen places comes alive in a cloud that swirls around and covers everything you have just dusted. *sigh* Ah the sights of Spring!

Now that your windows are open you begin to get use to the new sounds you hear. All the birds seem to get up at about the same time...5 am. How delightful to hear them squawking back and forth at that ungodly hour. Oh and lets not forget the lovely woodpecker pecking out a home for his wonderful family...in the tree across the street. Ah the sounds of Spring!

Looking out the window you can see all the beautiful flowers growing. The leaves are once again covering the trees. The grass is being trimmed. Wonderful fragrances fill the air (cough, sneeze and wipe eyes). All of this brings on yet another joyous spring pleasure...bugs. Spiders, black flies, mosquitoes, ants and a whole host of others too numerous to mention. When you aren't redusting your furniture you're swatting those lovely creatures till there's nothing left but a memory. Oh, and isn't it fun when you go outside and are immediately swarmed by several dozen families of black flies or mosquitoes or if you're really lucky both. Nothing better than swelling up and scratching from various bug bites. Ain't nature grand? Ah the sights of Spring!

Lying in bed listening to the sounds of a spring night. The chirping of yet more bugs. The squealing of tires. The revving of newly modified engines. Oh, and we can't forget the lovely boom boom booming of music (music??) as the local young people finally come out of their winter cocoons and share with everyone within a six block radius. Ah the sounds of Spring! And Summer is just a few days away...can't wait!