Spring Has Sprung!

It’s finally Spring! Hurray! The flowers are blooming, the trees are greening, and the pollen is, well, making me sneeze. Even so, it’s my favorite time of year.

Spring reinvigorates me — prodding me out of hibernation and into rejuvenation. I’m itching (and not just from the pollen) to get in my garden and plant, to spruce up my porches with brilliant colored flowers, to cook out in the summer kitchen, and to throw open my porch doors to the fresh scent of spring. 

I give my house and porches a good spring-cleaning, freshening bed linens, cleaning windows to let 

all that delicious spring sunlight in, and making room for those new Spring clothes. I look forward to wearing strappy sandals, floral colors, and shorts. And to baring my freshly pedicured feet, and my newly exfoliated skin.

Spring also prompts me to change up my menu, setting aside the warm comfort foods of winter for lighter fare made from the wonderful fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables. Speaking of seasonal fruits and vegetables, here’s a great recipe for enjoying all that stone fruit readily available this time of year.

Though the calendar may say it’s Spring, I know for a good part of the country it’s still the middle of winter. Hang in there, your time will come – likely when it’s 95 degrees here in sunny, muggy Florida, and we’re wishing for your soft, spring weather.

What's your favorite thing about Spring?