NaNoPoMo April 9: Spring

Today's walk took us past that small flowerbednow rich with purple crocuses. Tight buds of daffodilsand hyacinths poke through the earth, a promise of spring.Already, those first flowers, delicate snowdrops, have started to droop.Well bundled against the cold, we walk all the way up the hill on a wide path, farmer's fields of mown grass dotted with a small cluster of occasionalCanada geese. And