The dapples are emerging, so spring is officially here.

Limerick's dapples have begun to emerge from beneath layers of shedding winter hair and dirt, not unlike the blades of green grass and daffodil leaves emerging in yards and gardens around here.

I am no poet but I was inspired to write this:

Dead vegetation

And hair

Flattened by pressure

From wind and hand

Float away

To feed the earth

And leave behind

Blooming dapples and life