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New crocus flowers don't let a little snow keep them from making their first-day-of-spring debut in a planter box outside the Lincoln Building in downtown Spokane Wednesday. (Colin Mulvany/SR file photo)
New crocus flowers don't let a little snow keep them from making their first-day-of-spring debut in a planter box outside the Lincoln Building in downtown Spokane Wednesday. (Colin Mulvany/SR file photo)

Though winter rain
and snow still soak us,
beneath the mud
stirs spring's first crocus.

The Bard of Sherman Avenue

D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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