Whereas - in the northeast - we have arrived in winter. In the south - it is very much spring.

Trees are greening. Birds are singing. Flowers are beginning to show.

I expected alligators and snakes and other reptilian creatures who live within. I looked for them everywhere.
They remained still.
Quiet.
Hibernating.
Sleeping.

I never would have expected this.

How sweet she was. How tentative and timid. How beautiful.

Guarded and protected - she kept her three babies safe and distant from my camera's lens.

And I was reminded once again. Of nature's never-ending ability to re-store and re-new.

Somewhere - it's always spring.