Spring is in the air

This is one of my favourite times of the Japanese year, where winter has gone, and the overpowering heat of summer is still approaching...

or to put it another way.

Winter has slipped away like the tide leaving the shore,
while the flooded fields shine like the sky.
Birds flow through the air twisting and turning,
on the breath of the wind that brushes the crops.
Green spreads through the land as I stop and watch
the water flow.