Exactly three weeks ago Kaya announced on the first day of spring,
“Today I’m looking for signs of spring – birds, flowers and leaves.”
Although spring seems to be taking its own sweet time to arrive in Lincoln, we have searched high and low and indeed found some of those welcome and long-awaited signs.
Skunk cabbage – it’s like a flower but it doesn’t bloom. WILL
I see that it’s purple and green. ALEX
I think it’s a cactus. SAM
Cactus? Growing here? And it’s not in the desert? URSULA
Buds!
Mosquitoes!
Plants!
Blue Jays!
Green leaves!