Signs Of Spring!

 

 

So here I am three weeks in, since my foot surgery.  I am going crazy with the confinement.  My trusty companions are my crazy crutches.  I have used these off and on for ten years, since my RSD diagnosis.

 The first two years I was on crutches only.  With two years of physical therapy graduated to my trusty cane.

 When I have flares and my leg/knee/foot are causing me too much grief, these are my 'go to' help.
They make me smile and they make people I encounter smile as well.

 The constant gray skies and cool winds and threat of rain/snow are getting too me as well.  So the sun started to peak out and I called on my best sidekick Shelka and told her we were going to look for signs of spring!!

 We found this pretty ground cover, peeking up through the detrius of winter..can't wait to see its full glory.

 AHA! Look!  tulip leaves pusing through the pine cones, sharing space with baby scottish pine trees.

 Vinca vine trailing through the same flower bed, under a glorious pine tree.

 Oh My! Rose bushes pushing out sweet, tender green shoots and leaves along side of winter branches.

 Looking up to our beautiful french pussy willow tree.  This tree is over 30 feet tall.  Our middle daughter helped her daddy pick it out for my Mother's Day gift some 20 plus years ago!

 Oh be still my heart!  Crocuses  are opening their petals to let in the fresh scent of spring and adding their faint smell to the cool air.

 

I SEE you sun!  I know you are lurking beyond the gray cast of late winter/early spring.  It is the teasing of new life and new days ahead that make me feel less antsy and confined.

I can't drive for another month or maybe more but at least I can go outside when the weather is calling me to explore in my own yard.

I hope wherever you are, whatever the weather or hiccup in your day, you have the hope of a new day, new circumstances or just some tiny confirmation that life is never stagnant.  God is showing me that "Yes, this too shall pass."