That time of year - haiku

The image behind this haiku popped into my head on the way to work this morning; by the time I arrived I had it pretty much worked out. I included "haiku" in the title because I have a few vague ideas about expanding on this thought at a later (but hopefully not much later) date.

Comments welcome, as always! Hope you like it.

Edit, Apr 2004, Preview: I am currently working through my gallery and providing a " proper" preview image for those deviations that didn't originally have one. I apologise to all those watching me if this causes these old poems to be flagged as "new". The image in this thumbnail is from stock - storm drive, by ~dkittystockage.

I am led to believe that the kanji characters read "haiku"; if anybody knows differently, please let me know.