Today it feels like spring. It’s been raining all day and the snow is dissolving and
disappearing. Tomorrow is day
light saving maybe a few weeks earlier than years ago but that still means that
winter is licked.
Around our place in rural Nova Scotia, we have a
delightful tiny white flower with pale pink stripes that always blooms early
May. It’s called a Spring Beauty and I love to find them.
Unfortunately we also have Spring Ugly. Spring Ugly isn’t the fault of the government. It can’t be blamed on a freak of nature nor even really on
big corporations. Spring Ugly is
caused by everyday rural Nova Scotian’s who don’t seem to have any problem tossing their Tim Horton’s cups, their beer cans or their cigarette packages
out of their car windows. Today
because the snow is receding, I found Spring Ugly: six Tim Horton’s cups, one beer tin, one cigarette package and one
Campbell’s Tomatoe Soup tin
all within a hundred meters of my house!