Spring can’t come soon enough. Or can it…

Doctor Dictionary’s Word of the Day:

verdant \VUR-dnt\, adjective:
1. Covered with growing plants or grass; green with
vegetation.
2. Green.
3. Unripe in knowledge, judgment, or experience;
unsophisticated; green.

I was verdant enough to think her Agrippine very fine.
— Henry James, “The Théâtre Français”

Well, Mr. James, I was verdant enough to think that spring’s arrival would be a welcome respite from winter’s clinging bitterness. But it has not escaped me that all the growing plants and grass will release their fresh pollen, a biological sign of blossoming growth, and a potent threat to my respiratory system.