Spring!!

has sprung.
and i have never lived through this explosion before.
At home, it is a gentle awakening. it is green. the tangy smell of mango blossoms (i miss them, miss them), new leaves, the desperate-for-a-mate magpie robins.
Here, it is pink. cherry blossoms, other fruit blossoms i have not been introduced to, magnolias, camellias that are exuberant but strangely disappoint with the lack of fragrance- like a goodlooking person who is not interesting.
So home, it is green and sharp- like kairi chutney; and here, pink and sweet, like strawberry icecream. do i prefer one over the other? one is home, the other is mine. one grown with, the other reached out for. hmm.
but it snowed. And while all of Seattle was deploring the return of winter, yours truly pulled on a coat and went out. think of it, I thought I had said goodbye to Seattle snow- and then it palated. how could I not run out and hug it?
But here is a link to pinkness..