Day Seventy Eight 2013

Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come.
~ James Thomson








And all about, the softening air
Of new-born sweetness tells,
And the ungathered Mayflowers wear
The tint of ocean shells.
The old, assuring miracle:
is fresh as heretofore:
And earth takes up its parable of life from death once more.
~ Whittier

[We’re in the final hours of winter. Finally. Spring begins with the vernal equinox at 7:02 A.M. (EDT) on March 20, 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere. Today was a beautiful sunny blue sky spring like day, this last day of winter. But we all know ‘Mother Nature’ doesn’t pay much attention to dates on the calendar when it comes to the weather. So, for what it’s worth, goodbye winter!]

Day Thirty Eight 2013

“Consider the daffodil. And while you’re doing that, I’ll be over here, looking through your stuff.”       ~Jack Handy



First two pics are macro daffodil { buttercup, jonquil}. The one in the last pic I found on the deck post. Someone (I’m guessing a grandchild)  had picked it and then forgot it.

Day Sixty Five 2012

"God is in the details."
~anonymous

Day Sixty One 2012

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
~Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561~1626)

Day Thirty One 2012

Today is January 31. Now I ask you, what is wrong with this picture?

Day Twenty One 2012

We've had such a mild winter so far here in middle Tennessee (and winter is only 4 weeks old) that the hyacinths and buttercups are sprouting everywhere in our yard. I say this is a case of Mother Nature fooling Mother Nature. I want to shout at them to go back inside; it's not your time yet. I'm afraid they'll all be goners if we ever get back down to subfreezing temps again in the weeks to come. I would miss their colors come spring time.

 "In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature."
- Edna O'Brien 

Day Eighty One 2011

"If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom." ~ Terri Guillemets

Day Eighty 2011

Even as these near-eighty degree temps wilt our beautiful buttercups, the purple irises are starting to sprout. I hope the heat doesn't kill them before they've had the chance to bloom. I'm loving the warmer temps, but, hey Mother Nature, give Spring a chance!

Day Seventy Eight 2011

"Spring is Nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'" ~ Robin Williams

Day Sixty Eight 2011

A little sunshine on a gray rainy day--cell phone camera pic in Solaris color setting.

Day Sixty Two 2011

"And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils."

~William Wordsworth

Day Fifty Four 2011

The Buttercups are blooming! They must know something that we don't know.