a football field surrounded by a number of trees , whose previously bare and wintered boughs were now adorned by the fresh leaves of spring , and as these leaves grew , they suffused the very air around them with a heady aroma , which conveyed to one and all that the blighted days of winter were now history and that they were now roaming in the beauty of the intoxicating spring , which sprouted new life on the branches of trees and sprung up new hope in the hearts of men .