Signs of Spring!!!!!!!!

Spring may not officially be here according to the Julian calendar but my sinuses know that it's flown in like a pregnant woman looking for the nearest bathroom.  Bradford pears might be pretty to look at when they're in full bloom but "snot funny" the way they make my head feel.

Another sure sign that Spring is comin'  is the way the geese that hang out at the lake in front of our building  start acting. Eleven months out of the year those silly Canadians are just as compatible as a pair of old shoes. But when the sap starts rising then the feathers start flying. All the male geese who were just as cordial to each other the day before start flapping and dive bombing each other all over the lake trying to appeal to the ladies with their goosey "I am strong like bull", manly charm.  You can be certain that in just a few weeks after that we'll start seeing mama and papa goose minding 4 or 5 little yellow fluff balls as they glide across the lake showing off their progeny.  It's funny how grown people will act when that new "family" makes its first appearance, kind of like how you used to could stand in front of the nursery window at the hospital and admire all the new arrivals. We all gather at the window and ooh and aah just like they were ours.  And like Elton John sings about the "circle of life" we all know that when the baby geese appear then so do the turtles. And turtles like yellow fluff balls for dinner so most of them disappear before they get very big.  I'm not sure who likes turtles on the food chain but there must be something that does because otherwise we'd be overrun with them.  Everything has its place and there's a place for everything.  I like how God planned it that way and I like that we're at the top of the heap.  But stay out of the way of elephants...they trump everything.