5 Ways That Spring Makes Me Think of My Mother

1. Most of the flower names I know are those that my mother would point out excitedly every April: "Look, the crocuses are coming in!"

2. She loved forsythias.

3. In the old 1980s "season color scheme" she was a "Spring."

4. About this time she'd get the eggs boiling and we'd dye our Easter eggs.

5. I find myself saying to Rocky, "It's such a beautiful day---why don't you go outside??"