The shift from winter to spring feels like an entirely different season, a period of anticipation. We look for signs of new growth in every tree. Now is the time to finish the winter's chores, to make way for a new season.

Let us relish the in-between. Each cold day brings us closer to warmth, each rainfall helps along the flowers and the grass that nourishes the sheep in the fields. The osprey are starting to return. Even if we don't feel it quite yet, nature knows: spring is afoot.