SHEEN OF GREEN
The best thing about spring isn’t the flowers. It isn’t the clear robin’s egg blue sky or the puffy white clouds or even the warming temperatures. It’s the sheen of green. The sheen of bright, neon green that blooms on every living surface…every bush, every tree, every field, every hedge. It transforms the whole world, just like the hoarfrost does in the winter or the first snow. Today was so clear you could see forever. It was the kind of day when the hot air balloons come out, though we didn’t actually see any. I cut back last year’s growth...