Editor’s note: When reading this, please imagine of the voice of a narrator for the nature films students watch in high school.

Nature in spring bursts with life and activity. It is a time of birth, rebirth and renewal. It is a good and busy season for nature study. The human species begins to bloom in a sequence as in the previous year. This blooming sequence of people in a certain area is observing the relationship between climate and the life cycles of the human being.

This spring season is a time of emergence and migration. The human being emerges from its winter sleeping places. Neighbors (Folkus nextous) merge in sequence as the temperature and weather conditions warm up. They will slowly begin to recognize these neighbors as the same exact people they knew last fall prior to the first big snowfall.

These neighbors will at first be apprehensive and shy as they are not yet fully comfortable talking in complete sentences. The winter migration has left them slow and only able to make small gestures and grunts. They are unused to the Northland. Later, as the sun is out more and temperatures rise they will experience a full emergence of letters strung in a way to complete sentences. They might even come out of the cocoon long enough to offer a liquid refreshment to the Folkus nextous, which then may lead to full sentences and, if the right moons align, a creasing upward of the mouth area somewhat resembling a smile.

Once full renewal is in place and the temperatures are a constant 50 or greater, they will then bring out lawn tools and sporting equipment regularly from their garage or borrowed from neighbors.

Spring is also a time that the local elderly migrate north and use the flyways they may have used in the autumn to go south. They then stake out their nesting and feeding territories so they may reintroduce themselves to their neighbors using the same rebirth as mentioned earlier.

Many of the elderly tribe will also remind the younger members that although they have been away, temperatures, although normally in the 80s in the Southland, have been as low as the 40s, and they, too, have had a rough winter solstice. Alarming medical conditions as well as higher than normal golf scores also will be shared among the younger tribe, making not worrying about the elderly futile.

The spring season will not be complete until the ritualistic Promenade (Promus costus lota moni) takes place for the younger of the human species. This Prom is a life cycle that the tribe family annually goes through, making the human male frown as the cost is much more than he ever would have thought, but, in turn, making the female of the species very happy as spending money is a rite of passage that the two female generations must go through to happily bond with each other. Once the Promus costus lota moni is over, spring will have then have officially ended and the summer solstice will begin.

Photojournalist leaves

Brie Cohen’s last day is today. I am sad. Brie has been our photographer for the past three years and has done an incredible job. Brie is going to be working in Minneapolis on children’s books, and, for that, I am happy.

Brie’s family and many of her friends live in the Cities, and this move will allow Brie to be closer to all of them. I am still sad, though, because Brie brought a great knowledge of photography and video to all of us here at the Tribune. Brie has become a part of our family, and we all have that happy and sad feeling that parents get when their kids go off to college.

We will miss Brie, but at the same time, we all wish Brie the best of luck in her endeavors as we know that she will go on to be a superstar!

(I now have a feeling like I should give her a $20 bill and make sure her oil is changed and her tires all have the proper amount of rubber on them for a safe trip.)

Brie Cohen, good luck in all you do.

Tribune Publisher Scott Schmeltzer’s column appears every Thursday.