Springtime for Kristina and Germany

I have to say something unpatriotic: I hate spring in Canada. It's all melting and freezing and thawing and refreezing and sludge. It's squishiness underfoot and the smell of stuff defrosting. In short, yuck.

So I never understood why people were always yammering on about "rebirth" and "the world starting anew" and so on. But springtime in Germany is the best, and not just because it reminds me of this, which makes me laugh.


It's sunny! And the mornings are cold and the afternoons are warm and there are flowers just popping up in the middle of the grass, for no apparent reason. Like, did someone plant them there? Who knows? Who cares! It's like a unicorn habitat out there, is what I'm saying.