Crocus

March 1.  Blue sky morning, not a cloud in sight, and the sun is streaming down, stirring a cool, light breeze and lighting up the crocus that have emerged.  It seems too soon to call these early flowers of spring.  They are, rather, flowers of late winter.  We'll have plenty of cold weather, perhaps even more snow before spring arrives.  But along with the lengthening days, the crocus emphatically declare that winter's time is short now.