What’s your favorite time of the year? Today we’re sharing our top five things we love about spring. See for yourself, and down below, check out the openers from Robin and Trish!
Parker Broaddus
Author of A Hero’s Curse & Nightrage Rising
There’s a lot to love about spring on a farm, and of course there’s a lot of mud too.
Getting up and seeing the sun peek over the horizon is a favorite. All winter it has come up late, cold and weak in the pale sky – but as spring begins the sun comes up earlier, with a cheery glow that promises to make things grow. It just looks different in those spring sunrises. There’s more reds and deep oranges and I feel something stir as I hang out with my coffee cup and watch it come up over the hills.
Watching the grass struggle up where winter has laid the earth bare is a beautiful thing. Bald patches grow over, (I wish my hair would do that!). Brown spots turn green. And then the smell of that first cutting.
Lambs. Nuff said.
A breeze with a breath of warmth. After a long winter of cold wind, stepping out at 6am and feeling a breath of wind with a warmth behind it is life. It promises good things. Growing things.
Finally, I love the smell of fresh dirt, turned in the garden, or the smell of green fields, with a first spring rain. They both smell like growing green things, and that’s what the earth does best. As a farmer, I get a front row seat to the drama, and this act is one of the most dramatic.
Robin Lythgoe
Author of As the Crow Flies
How do I decide on only five best things about spring? That’s like asking me to choose favorite children! If that’s the way we’re going, I’ve decided to keep the twins as one unit. Or the triplets, as it were. So, nyah. As I write this, I’m actually watching the grass grow outside my window. So exciting! But…
Patricia Reding
Author of Oathtaker
It might be difficult to mention only five, as spring may well be my favorite season, but here goes!
Temperatures. Of course, the season springs on us (see the pun there?) in mid-March, and ends in mid-June. In my neck of woods, that means that the average temperature goes from 39/22 (H/L) to 77/59 (H/L)…
There it is! What about you? What are your favorite things about spring? Drop me an email, send a picture, or comment below.