Each spring I eagerly await the lilacs coming into bloom, it reminds me of my childhood; Easter, Mother's Day, spring trips for ice cream and walking through the park. My mother used to wrap the most beautiful gifts in all white wrapping paper, white ribbon and fresh lilacs cut from the garden and put on top, she'd give them for weddings, bridal and baby showers or spring birthdays and I would stare at those packages with their bright purple flowers and think about how lucky I would be to receive one of those.

My birthday was in the fall and every fall I would wake up hoping I'd see that white wrapped present with the white ribbon and fresh lilacs and each year I'd see some brightly wrapped gift with my favourite Disney character or some equally busy print and I'd smile and tear it open but it never smelled of lilacs and it never held the same charm or mystery that those all white boxes did. It is not to say I was disappointed with fall but I was forever enchanted by the spring and it's beautiful spring flowers, it's new and wondrous scents and the mysterious and elegant little boxes that the season was associated with.  

Now spring has come again and I find myself waiting eagerly for the lilacs to bloom, waiting for all the beauty of spring to arrive and anxiously anticipating that scent to fill the air.
What spring pleasures do you anticipate?

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