You can feel it, on that day the sun makes its celestial journey from the south to north, and grants both earthly hemispheres an equal share of light. As you step from your winter house that morning, the anticipatory pause that held you since the early days of March is lifted.
At first, it hovers in the gray and thinning veil of vapor rising off the melting snow. And then it dissipates, releasing all that was in preparation underneath—multitudinous intricacies of nature teeming throughout the winter, unseen beneath the frozen ground above. These stir now suddenly, beneath your feet. A palpable shift into spring.
