Spring has definitely arrived. When I go out in the morning darkness and can hear the beginnings of a hundred bird songs. All singing to bring up the sun. Then in starts the peeping, croaking song of the frogs.

That’s how you know it’s Spring. All the songs that it brings. It really feels like they are singing the sun up into the sky. Singing the trees and plants up out of their sleep.

The squirrels are running around my yard and I saw a fox too. The vultures have arrived. I always see them as a harbinger of Spring. As an herbalist and a nature being, this is when I feel antsy. I want to twirl and dance to all the songs.

Already my sweet grass is growing and my stinging nettle. I found tiny cleavers, chickweed, mother’s wort, chamomile, and so manyother sprouts. I can’t wait for their bounty of food and medicines.

Isn’t nature wonderful?