I used to really enjoy starting my day out with one of PeterT's Thought for the Day threads, and some of my own on the weekends. This morning feels like a good day for such.

Here it is the day which makes this a Leap Year. We woke to a skiff of snow covering the light brown, cracked earth which is streaked white with alkali. I am reminded of the old Westerns with towns named Alkali Flats, impossibly dry except at the saloon. Still someone managed to get stuck in quicksand somewhere only to be rescued in the nick of time.

There is a stillness across the land, this morning. It is not particularly early as I've heard the lonesome-like whoroo, whoroo of the mourning doves and a few brave chirps of robins. Tiny bits of green stand up tall, pushing the snow aside as if to say, "A declaration of Spring is mine and I shall deem it so!"

It's a promise, this day. A last day of a supposed wintery month before we hear from March and, more certain signs of Spring. So a new twist on an old adage: Spring Hopes Eternal! or, even Spring Hopes, Eternal" **bg**

Have a spring-filled day!

kat