There are phrases in Japanese expressions which symbolize each season. For spring, we say wind glitters, mountains smile, and water gets loose. Those sounds please my ears.
“Wind glitters” symbolizes the lights of spring, and you can imagine fresh breezes and glittering lights around you. If you look at mountains within a month or so, you will see fresh greens from deciduous trees which are full of new leaves, as if “mountains smile”.
Together with that green, other greens from evergreen trees and pink floral bud cover the whole mountains. From the distance, they are as if smiling.
When you soak your hands in a pond or in a river in spring, it is not freezing anymore. When the air is warmed up, whole nature becomes relaxed and loosed from the cold, including winds, mountains, and woods.
I wish this relaxed and loosed atmosphere reached in no time to northern parts of Japan
