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Spring's Promise
You set back the clock last night. Recently, the mercury in that thermometer has been over 60 degrees, more than once! Winter is retreating into each March sunrise. How many of you hear the birds celebrating now, with their morning songs?
Spring is my favorite season, especially when you ask me in March!
In spring, the world that has slumbered under winter snow and gray skies awakes, and with it my joy, and my wonderment in the cycles of the seasons, and the beauty of the natural world. As the temperatures warm, and we're reminded that there in fact is a sun, neighbors greet neighbors who've been mostly indoors, daffodils emerge, the silver maple, forsythia and dogwood bud, and with them, a renewal of my spirit.
On Saturday, our first 2010 project, fathers and their children worked (and horsed around) with KIBer Phil as they developed an outdoor play area at the Irvington Community School. Many, many more spring projects will follow, including a wonderful project April 24 on Pogues Run on the city's east side.
There, in partnership with Indy Parks, we will plant 100 trees, and clear out invasive honeysuckle. And, with the help of an imaginative Herron School of Art and Design student, and some advice from the local Audubon Society chapter, we're setting out stations of colorful twine and other materials to help the robins, cardinals and other winged ones build their spring nests; nests for all of us to see and enjoy!
Spring promises life; vitality; hope; a new start... It is the place where KIB starts its project year, uniting people to build this community, to add beauty, and to help our community and its environment flourish. Come join us for a project this spring. The cool thing, is that along with the songbirds' March morning songs, the trees, shrubs and natives you plant this spring will be the harbingers of spring next!
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