Flowers Bloom and Birds Sing

Spring in Middleburg

Blue skies, spring flowers, and song birds greeted me in Middleburg, Virginia this week. Parking was plentiful and streets were uncrowded. In the wake of the global pandemic the small town charm was a beautiful respite from the nonstop media coverage of bad news.

The greening of spring was everywhere – fields transformed from dormant brown to fresh green, trees were in bud, and bunches of flowers. sprang up in the middle of fields. The miles of stone walls and black board fences created magical outlines.

Navigating the narrow, curvy road, I remembered the remarks made by Punkin Lee, President of the Middleburg Business and Professional Association at last year’s Christmas Tree Lighting, “We love our countryside, our open space, all of our critters, and our people’s way of life.”

Spring has arrived. The flowers and birds don’t know about current events and bloomed and sang. Everything felt “normal” until I spied the new fox statue that was unveiled last Christmas – a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor?