Winter holidays and traditions in my country eBook "Spring in my Country" | Page 15

Cotun Victoria, Republic of Moldova                                 Spring – a season of flowers                                                                   Spring is really a season of flowers . Many kinds of                                                                               flowers bloom in Spring . Swarms of bees rush among                                                                     them . They hum around the opening buds . They hum around the blooming petals . They take the essence of flowers and make honey of it . A lot of butterflies fly to the colourful flowers and sit on them . They fly here and there enjoying the beauty of flowers . Flowers of various colours dance in the vernal wind . Mango blossoms rise up on the mango trees . The cuckoo sits in the leafy twig and sings its melody . A light breeze blows from the south . It is the sweet south wind . It feels very pleasant . It carries to us smell of flowers and music of Moldavian fertile soils . Boys and girls feel a kind of thrill . All are pleased and happy . Plants and animals look mirthful ; so also the human beings . People do many kings of festivity . They sing and dance and wish merry greetings . Spring has roused high level poetic imagination in the minds of our poets . So , we find a lot of poetic works in our literatures . There is no rose without thrones . Springs , too has some vices . Smallpox is very common in this season . Besides , chicken - pox and measles are found . Hence , we should guard ourselves against these epidemics . Spring is known as the king of the seasons . In spring nature appears in her best from . It provides us with all kinds of pleasure . But spring is defiled by a vicious kind of illness . It is called smallpox . Prevention is better than cure . So , we should get ourselves vaccinated before this dangerous epidemic confronts us .