WOW - here I am on the first day of november - preparing for the spring sales...

I have been putting together a http://www.dreamstime.com/photos-of-hands-holding-spring-flowers-colldet5431 , and while doing so I began thinking about the smell of spring and small fragile flowers being carefully held in hands.

Then the thought occured to me - how do everyone else define spring to me a handful of flowers is the best and most obvious symbol of my feelings when everything begins to bloom after the grey and cold winter.

Fill me in...what are your definition of spring - what are the most obvious symbols?