Spring certainly is about flowers and stick-trees coming back into leaf, but, even more, it is about the return of music. Spring becomes real the first time you’re able to sit outdoors and hear the birds sing, or listen to the song of peepers in the wetlands. Winter is a silent season. Except for the wind or the scraping sound of snowplows and the occasional snow blower following a storm, winter is quiet. Whatever noises there are, are the result of living and getting about i