The First Harbinger of Spring in Coweta County Georgia!

One of the reasons that I moved to the South was to escape the dreadful winters north of the Mason-Dixon Line! As a youth I learned that shoveling snow was NOT something that I enjoyed doing.

So I headed for the warmer climate of Georgia, with its shorter, milder and wetter winters. And for most of the nearly four decades that I have been here, I have been very satisfied with my decision.

But the last few winters here in Dixie have been colder and snowier than usual. It was almost as if my past had crept up on me and found me! We had our third snow of the year a week ago today!

But yesterday depression was transformed into exhilaration as I beheld patches of daffodils blooming around the neighborhood! And just as William Wordsworth was moved to pen words to paper over two hundred years ago, so was I!

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils; (W. Wordsworth)

Spring has sprung in Coweta County Georgia!