Spring is sprung

Its been a lovely warm sunny day today, perhaps Spring is sprung and we can look forward to the marvel which happens each year, natures rebirth is all around. 

The trees are in bud, opening to display their subtle often vivid colours, attracting the insects to help pollination. 

The apparently dead plants throw off their winter gloom and find new life with the warmth of the sun. The fish pond is alive again with frogs croaking and copulating madly in the seasonal reaffirmation of the life cycle, the need to procreate the species and boy do they procreate !! I have always wondered where do the frogs that now populate my fish pond go in winter.There must be 20 or more fully grown frogs in the pond each busy and yet each year, after they have spawned I gather them in a large bucket to take them down to the river and release them. The frog spawn become tadpoles and the tadpoles become breakfast for my fish and yet each year at this time they are back, like homing pidgins to start all over again. 

The birds are also returning their song a rich communication, revealing their identity and position, calling for a mate to continue this 'maintenance plan of who they are and what, at its very basic, life is about. 

We as humans loose this perspective, we build our shelters to make the climate inconsequential, our food is produced by others and the procreation aspect is usually a short sprint whilst we make plans for other things !!!!