Hey Bud
Poking your tender head
Above soil’s chill grasp
A reflection of sun’s glow
Shining golden in delight
Proud challenge to winter’s hold
Hey Bud
Bringing hope and promise
To an earth held in its tight grasp
Welcome life
Hidden among brown leaves
Rising forth… resolute in faith
Charlotte-Anne Allen
The Still Small Voice 
Nice. I’m ready for buds to show their faces — for Spring to greet us.
Today in Indianapolis, we have snow showers. Not much, but enough to tell us that winter is not over yet.
Ann Coker
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Hi Ann! We have buds coming up down here in NC! I’m ready for spring too.
38 and and wind chill of 30 here now, today. No snow though. That’s just north of us in Tidewater VA area (I have relatives there).
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