vernal

I'm definitely feeling spring today.  It is over 40ºF today, and the sap is running in the sugar maples.  The sun is out, sort of, and the air has a scent and feel to it that connote spring and warm weather coming.  I can't take a picture of it, and I can't think of words to describe it, but it must be a combination of the wind, the mud, the sun, fattening buds, bright birdsong, and probably many other elements.  It is not received by a single sense, but by all in combination - is there a word for that?  It is not tactile, but neither is it an emotion.  It is very comprehensive, physically and psychically, and I know exactly what it means even though I cannot describe it either way, or any other way very well, apparently.  Maybe you already know what I mean!  It is a knowing, an understanding, of the natural world, and I suppose that it is what has helped us survive for so many eons in so many places.  I wonder how long it will last.

 

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