spring clean up

I know I have told you how busy I am with my book launch. And yet, I can not resist doing a day of my usual spring clean up. It’s 70 degrees and sunny, the birds are singing, and the emails can wait. I am sure a lot of you think of spring clean-up as necessary drudgery. But I love it. I think a lot of northerners love it. After four months of being mostly cooped up inside, spending a warm afternoon outside, pulling back the leaf litter to reveal a million tiny shoots of new-growth green is intoxicating. Everything is charged. Electrified. I can’t let it slip by.

lichen covered branches