Icy Beauty

Look! the massy trunks

Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray,

Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven,

Is studded with its trembling water-drops,

That stream with rainbow radiance as they move.

~William Cullen Bryant, A Winter Piece (I.66)

Spring may have sprung on March 20 according to the calendar, but somehow I think the weather gods missed the memo on that one.  

It was cold, it was icy and it was definitely still winter.  

Typical Michigan weather, eh? 

But this time around I didn’t seem to mind so much.  It sparkled, it glittered, it glistened.  It was beautiful! 

I take back all those nasty things I said about Old Man Winter ... but I definitely still have spring fever!