It is difficult to contain green. The keen, mossy smell of spring--the unstoppable vines and weeds, new grass sprouting even in a concrete curbway, the explosion of green leaves after the flowering of deciduous trees. It is the color of the tea plant, itself an evergreen. The reason tea and so many plants are green is because their chlorophyll content absorbs blue and red light--reflecting the unnecessary green back to us. Being so abundant in spring, green is a reminder that all this so slick with rain and new life, is itself a cycle and impermanent.