Green is just starting to reappear here, tiny tips poking through the occasional morning frost, making their appearance through the oak leaves we forgot to clean up last fall. There is one lone yellow crocus in the backyard that is the embodiment of all of my hope and belief in the sun and the return of warmth and spring (and eventually, SUMMER!)

And so imagine my deep delight when scrolling through Instagram and stumbling on Floraffiti: a gardening + placemaking + community engagement project based in Portland, Oregon and this spring, in North Carolina. Such amazing, inspiring community engagement work!