Given how much we all know gnomes like to travel I thought I'd better show mine around town while we still had some time together but before I set him in his butterfly field.
I also asked readers of my Facebook page to share what they loved about spring, and I got some really great answers that I want to share with you below to get you excited (as if you are not already!) about the change of season:
It's a fresh start.......a time to learn and change last season's trials....feeling that sense of community again......the smell of rain.Spring is a blank canvas and a full pallet of colors just waiting to create a new "one of a kind" work of art.I love to watch all the beautiful flowers wrenching their way out of the ground, grasping towards the warm sun.Such promise for the season ahead in the spring.I love the way color creeps back into the landscape - from the first soft green blades of grass to the hint of green in trees as leaves begin to unfurl and then a symphony of all kinds of shades of pinks as shrubs and trees blossom punctuated with the bright cheery splashes of reds and yellows from tulips and daffodils...ah, spring is fresh colour!I look forward to the wonders of spring.I can't wait to get in the garden, with soil under my nails and the sun beating down on me....seeds starting to sprout...I love opening all of the windows in my house while I'm spring cleaning!I love the thought of renewal, and a new beginning.Everything!Thanks to everyone who entered, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your eloquent and inspiring responses. Congratulations to Heather Lewis Neill & Janice E Cournoyer, who have each won a pair of tickets to the Home & Garden show in Winnipeg