Ohhhhhhhh, O.B.--that is beautiful! And your sentence is perfect in this context.
I don’t know from whence whangs. Gurunet says: Dialectal variant of Middle English thong, thwang, thong.

EDIT: forgot to mention that when I went up north a couple of weeks ago, I noticed about halfway up Indiana that all the trees were bare of leaves. Yet when I got back home, we still had approx. a third of them still on the trees. It's maybe about a fourth overall, now; yet we still have a few maples that are almost fully leafed out in glorious reds, yellows, and even some green. Makes you aware of geography.