Although spring officially arrived on March 20 the kind of weather we associate with this season of the year delayed its appearance here until April ninth when we had our first really warm spring day. Until then only a few brave crocus plants had dared to poke their heads above ground and bloom confirming the meteorologists announcement of spring. With the warm sunny breezes at last the daffodils and forsythia, two of my favorite early harbingers of spring which had been holding out for just such a day began popping out everywhere. Our periwinkle ground cover around the apartment complex here at Kendal became like a carpet of bright sparkling blue flowers. In the enclosed garden area by the health center buttercup yellow dandelions appeared to the dismay of the landscape committee.
As my son was driving me to a medical appointment in nearby Columbus we noted that the trees were not yet showing the early signs of awakening to spring when the stark bare wintry look of their branches begins to change to that softer somewhat "fuzzy" appearance they take on as leaves and blossoms appear. The willows seem to be slow to turn a pale green as they begin to leaf out. It shouldn't be long now before that changes.
Other signs of spring here at Kendal also have put in their appearance as the fencing around the construction areas at each end of our complex finally came down. With them went a lot of the clutter outside our buildings giving us a promise that green grass and other landscaping will begin to take the place of the bare ground once more around our main building.
Even more exhilarating has been the moving in of residents into three of our new apartments with others to follow soon. It's exciting to be able to greet these newcomers to our community. We anticipate gettig to know them and integrating them into our family. They will bring new energy to us.
Suddenly "spring has sprung" bringing with it an air of a renewed hope for the future.
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