“It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” ~Mark Twain

While sitting at my desk late last night, more accurately, early this spring morning, researching marketing ideas for temporarychef.com, I came upon a missive penned by Elanor on Ethicurean. Please take a moment and enjoy the word portrait she paints of a small New Hampshire farm just down the road from me.

Yes, it’s spring and the winter past is left only in my memory. Easier, then, to recall the snow mantled serenity and beauty of a season that challenges.