Today is the First Day of Spring!

The snow is melting, the sun is shining,  I can hear the turtle's voices, as it were...


Get up, Toad!  It is spring now!   


(Just watch it snow about 8 inches worth of accumulation tomorrow)


Many Happy Returns of the First Day of Spring, Folks!!!!  



I vote we all go outside and stomp in the mud puddles.


Which makes me think of: 


Chansons Innocentes: I

in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little 
lame balloonman

whistles far and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it's 
spring
and
the 
goat-footed    

balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee



-E.E. Cummings