Woodward: Spring

For those of us fortunate (or prudent) enough to live in the southern half of the continental United States, spring is more or less here. Maclin Horton is already showing off his Alabama spiderwort, which means it's time for us North Texans to rise up and prove that spring can arrive even without the assistance of any appreciable rainfall. (Yes, I know that April showers bring May flowers, but in Texas so do March droughts.)

Our crabapple tree is cooperating most admirably.


And the pomegranate bush, which is right next to the crabapple, has produced through Herculean effort a single bud -- at least a month ahead of its usual schedule. (Peer pressure?)

Within a couple of weeks, we'll be up to our eyeballs in bluebonnets around here, followed immediately by young men's fancies lightly turning to thoughts of love.

Take that, Maclin.