LEAVES!!!

     One thing I didn't like about coming back up north after our trip to Florida was how drab it looks up here. As soon as you get beneath the Carolinas, it's green everywhere. Many of the tree's leaves have already come out, most notably the palms because they're everywhere too.
     Then you get to where I live, and the landscape is a brownish gray. You can see the dead leaf-ridden hillsides through the bare woods and even the fields are a grayish-straw color. Finally, after a little help from the rain, the grass started to turn a bright, pretty green and the trees had a kind of blush too them. As in the words of my sister: "It's like someone was color-by-numbering the world and they only used green"

     And now, thanks to this warm and humid weather, the hillside has turned from dusted with pink, to dotted with pastel green (yay!). Even the forsythias are blooming!
     I know springtime is getting to be a pretty recurring subject in my blog, but after months of snow and cold and blandness, it's just so exciting to me to see the colors coming out again! It's a small joy when I've got loads of other things on my mind (like finishing homework for my grueling AP course...grr).