Spring

Asher's elephant heard Asher's sister talking about Spring: she said it was sunny, warm, buzzing, and green.   Asher's elephant had never seen Spring before and he wondered why it was buzzing and green.  Spreading his big ears wide, he listened carefully to see if he could hear the buzzing. No matter how wide he spread his big ears, he could not hear any buzzing, and it was so puzzling. So Asher's elephant squinted his eyes and he peered as far as he could see, but he did not see green. The next day Asher's elephant smelled the sweetest and most beautiful smell.  He stretched out his trunk as far as he could and he breathed in deeply, hoping he could grab the sweetness. No matter how deeply he breathed, he could not reach whatever it was that smelled so sweet. The next day Asher's elephant did not smell the great smell again, but he felt warm just thinking about it. Asher's elephant awoke the next day to buzzing, a lazy buzzing that went this way and that, back and forth. He spread out his ears and stretched out his trunk and sniffed, finding the same sweet smell.  Asher's elephant could not see anything green, but he thought that whatever was buzzing and sweet must be green too. Asher's elephant thought Spring was sunny and warm and buzzing and green, and also sweet.

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