"Sharp little pale green points"

Churlish January stepped aside today in deference to his fair sister, May. We spent the day wrapped in her warm embrace, stumbling upon signs of spring in the dead of winter.

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"There had once been a flowerbed . . . and she thought she saw something sticking out of the black earth--some sharp little pale green points. She remembered what Ben Weatherstaff had said and she knelt down to look at them.

"'Yes, they are tiny growing things and they might be crocuses or snowdrops or daffodils,' she whispered.

"She bent very close to them and sniffed the fresh scent of the damp earth. She liked it very much.

"'Perhaps there are some other ones coming up in other places,' she said. 'I will go all over the garden and look.'"

--The Secret Garden

Comments

[Happyheartsmom]

I Love this part of the book! Secret Garden is such a treasure. What a beautiful thing to read in January, you know I'M pining for Spring!