Since it is February, I am once again thinking of this song I wrote when my daughter was about one and a half.  We were in the snowy, cold gardens of Wave Hill -overlooking the Hudson River.  She wore a pink snowsuit.  "Spring is just around the corner", I said, as we made snow angels.   I still say it every December 21st.  Sometimes I see it as a picture book - the illustrations going from the winter towards spring.

SONG: I Promise you Spring. 

I promise you spring

It soon will be spring

It soon will be buttercups

And butterflies

And blue birds

And blue skies above 

I promise you spring

There soon will be spring

There soon will be

Flowers all aglow

Dancing to and fro

Everywhere you go

I promise you hillsides of sweet fragrant grasses

To roll on over and over again

I promise you seesaws and swings you can sail on

Way up to the sky

I promise you Spring

I promise you Spring

There soon will be Spring

There soon will be

Dandelions and posies

And Ring- Around -The- Rosies,

Floating bubbles in the air

No more snowsuits or mittens or scarves or wool hats

No more sweaters or boots, no more blankets or wraps

I promise you spring!