Green

There is so much "green" talk on the news and in conversations around town these days! Green has become the new synonym, the short form for any and all environmentally friendly, ecologically conscious effort, plan, or undertaking from supporting an anti-idling campaign to buying local produce to not using pesticides.

I was thinking of "green" as just the colour green, as I was driving home from town this morning and looking at the trees around here still in their winter greyness! It seems that spring is late and cold this year - that is, the real spring with green leaves and flowers and everything bursting forth in colourful profusion! It just hasn't happened here yet and I say "bring it on"! Let us have green! Nile green, emerald green, that lovely yellow-green of new growth! It's time!!