The Circle of Life According to Guinness

Sniff..sniff. The air is changing.

The snow is melting...

The Earth is revealing herself once again...and it is strange to feel the cool, damp ground beneath our feet...

The moisture drips out of every little snow flake and leaves behind crystal shells, like a skeleton. It it hard to walk on-- a million tiny, grainy, ball bearings.

The sun is higher in the sky, and the days are getting longer. And with the thaw, the River has breached.

... And the banks must yield to the forces of Mother Nature!

As that ice melts, it trickles down into the deep, dark, musky soil...

On its way down it picks up minerals and nutrients from the leaves that fell to the forest floor last Autumn... the old life will feed the new life.

...And all the trees will awaken from their slumber. Long will their roots reach... and long will they drink that rich, life giving nectar!

The Sun will beckon--Give Up Your Dreams and Put The Night Away! New leaves will bud and flowers will bloom and new life will fill the forest with brief loveliness..

...until the seasons change once again....

and retreat into the cold stillness that is called Winter.