First hints of green and.....

[Tractor]

"I stopped to hike into a blackwater swamp of tupelo and bald cypress.....I had this powerful sence of life going about the business of getting on with itself.......Things were growing so fast I could almost feel the heat from their generation: the slow friction of leaf against bud case, petal against petal. For some time I stood among the high mysteries of being as they consumed the decay of old life."

William Least Heat Moon

.....I gotta get back on the trail. Soon AND later!

[burger]

Is that from Blue Highways? What a terrific book.

I'm not leaving for my hike until May 20th. Watching spring unfold while still being stuck here, away from the trail, may well kill me before I can start hiking.