March is here, and my camera and I see the world returning to life in small and miraculous ways.
In little leaves whose pale flush of chlorophyll hasn't fully waxed to green...
...buds so fresh out of the branch that they're still sticky...
...delicate lily flowers like drooping bells, blooming from sleeping underground bulbs...
...tiny rose leaves still backed with soft, silvery hairs...
...plum trees blushing into plumes of cotton candy, with thousands of fingernail-sized pink blossoms opening at the same time...
See! The winter is past;
the rains are over and gone.
Flowers appear on the earth;
the season of singing has come.
Beautiful pictures! And lovely poem. Happy Spring!
ReplyDeleteHaha, that's an excerpt from Song of Songs...guess I should have given Mr. Solomon credit where it was due :)
DeleteNot yet here ;-(. Hopefully soon. I'm kind of tired of the cold weather. Like your poem. Nuni
ReplyDeleteHm...you could come visit out here and enjoy it sooner :)
DeleteWell done Missy! As always. Beautiful pics. You shld open a flickr account. You, Jordan and Ted cld be the Flickr Sayres' :)
ReplyDeleteHaha. Maybe I should give it a try!
DeleteBeautiful pics! I love spring :)
ReplyDeleteMe too! I can never decide if I like fall or spring better; they're both so beautiful :)
DeleteComment attempt take#2 (my iphone ate the first one!): Spring affects me this way too -- I find myself taking photos of blossom all the time! Right now, though, we're in the middle of a heat wave, so some cooler weather is much desired!
ReplyDeleteErg, I can't stand it when technology eats my words! Wish I could come visit the nice hot Aussie weather now :)
DeleteBeautiful photos! Spring is a fickle lady here in the NW. Today was sunny, blue skies, but chilly. The rain will come back off and on for the next two months or so. I'm always anxious for spring to get here because it means summer is on it's way. :)
ReplyDeleteOh, summer in the NW is so beautiful! I was always gone for it in school, but sometimes the last week of September would perform, and it was glorious :)
DeleteThis feels like sunshine after a storm...writing about spring shortly after writing about lament!
ReplyDeleteHaha, how right you are :) Thanks for pointing that out!
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