Around the Banks

Resurrection, renewal and hope are words that are synonymous with the Easter season. They are words that never lose their strength or their value because some stories never grow old. The Easter season, the most holy of holidays on the Christian calendar, is one of those stories. Supporting the Easter season is the season of spring. The world, after a winter season with cold winds, frosty mornings, and bare trees, seems to burst overnight into a beautiful palette of a thousand shades of green and the bright colors of many spring flowers. The spring season is, indeed, a season of renewal. In today's world, we need that feeling of hope, maybe now more than we have ever needed it before. I am