Spring Fever

There might be some place where March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb but I don't live in such a place.  In Michigan, March tends to come in like a mud god and goes out like an ice god.  And April showers?  Yeah, right.  We can usually count on getting at least one more blizzard in April.  Still, I can feel spring coming on.  There's been a change in the air and some of the migratory birds have returned.  Still haven't seen a robin yet, but the Sandhill cranes that nest in the swamp behind my house were grazing in the muck today.  Won't be long before the crocuses appear, followed by the daffodils and tulips, the irises, peonies and roses.