The First Breath of Spring

There’s a specific moment in the North when the air loses its bite and the water finally remembers how to ripple. Looking down from above, you can see the forest waking up. The evergreens are shaking off the last of the frost, and the birch trees are just days away from their first green buds. It’s a transition captured in a single frame: the world holding its breath before the full bloom of summer takes over.