Bonnie- how beautiful and uplifting. Thanks for sharing. I also can`t wait, and am desperate to be out in the yard with my trees and shrubs flowering, and birds singing all around. Leslie Fisher Bonnie Ott wrote: > "Imagine yourself in a green dell, where the meadows meet the wood, a > soft warm wind gently blowing, and the big white clouds above sailing > under a dome of blue. > All around you, in the bushes, in the trees, and up in the sky, there > is music: Thrushes and blackbirds whistling their pure notes from the > bushes; Linnets flitting on the yellow gorse, singing their softer > liquid songs; Cuckoos calling in the fields; Warblers singing in the > wood, and Larks soaring over all. Flowers everywhere, butterflies > dancing over them, and the air itself filled with the more faint music > of insect's wings. Wherever you look there is happiness, for the whole > world is awake and mad with a great joy." > > Oliver G. Pike, from "Birdland"