Come with me on a nature walk at the Fleisher preserve (Watertown, CT). It's cool in the shaded forest, and the ground is still muddy in many places. You can hear a pileated woodpecker hammering away in the distance; closer are calls of robins and warblers and the burbling brook.
Look up!
and listen.....
look down...
and all around.
Jack-in-the-pulpit,
Canada mayflower,
and ferns, uncurling into spring.