Everything Old will be New Again

It's late winter, the landscape looks dull, done and dead.  Then you see a little green bud poking out of the ground.  Your heart stirs.  You hope for warmer weather.  You watch the little green bud every day.  It gets bigger.  It forms strap like leaves.  You have a couple of warm days and you see a pale bud emerging from between the green leaves.  You get excited.  You wait.  You have a couple more warm days and the bud turns ivory colored and points toward the ground.  With each day the colors changes slightly, more yellow starts to emerge.  Then one day you go outside and marvel at the miracle before you.  A narcissus or daffodil.  After last summer's blasting heat and dryness, after last autumn's sudden and early freezing of the ground and winter's ensuing drying, desiccating winds the daffodils are back after their many months nap under the surface.  You look around and see crocus, scilla, eranthis.  You notice the brown brittle trees' and shrubs' buds are starting to swell.  Some are green like the first little bud you saw poking up.  Some are silver.  Some are red..  Some are fuzzy.  Some are shiny.  Some are so sharp feeling you think you might cut yourself on them.  You realize that the earth is awakening.  With no concern for the fall of empires, financial turmoil, the price of gas or any of the other multitude of things life has thrown at the world Nature is making her prescence and her plan for the season known to all.  Everything that looks old, tired, worn out and done is coming back.  Everything old will be new again.