Nature, Spring, Wisdom and Joy!!

Be sure to click on the photos to really see the details.


Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran


"'Tis like the birthday of the world,
When earth was born in bloom;
The light is made of many dyes,
The air is all perfume:
There's crimson buds, and white and blue,
The very rainbow showers
Have turned to blossoms where they fell,
And sown the earth with flowers."
- Thomas Hood



"The young May moon is beaming, love.
The glow-worm's lamp is gleaming, love.
How sweet to rove,
Through Morna's grove,
When the drowsy world is dreaming, love!
Then awake! -- the heavens look bright, my dear,
'Tis never too late for delight, my dear,
And the best of all ways
To lengthen our days
Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!"
- Thomas Moore, The Young May Moon



Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Kahlil Gibran

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

I'm slipping away for a few days to Whidbey Island with friends and I'm really looking forward to it. I have scheduled my posts for the days I'm gone and will check in from time to time -- when I can find a computer. May is almost here!


Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.
Kahlil Gibran

O day after day we can't help growing older.
Year after year spring can't help seeming younger.
Come let's enjoy our winecup today,
Nor pity the flowers fallen.
Wang Wei, On Parting with Spring

There is more pleasure in making a garden than in contemplating a paradise.
Anne Scott-James

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

It's been a lovely day -- not quite as much sun as I would have liked, but much warmer and in a way the beautiful colors seem even more beautiful against the gray/blue skies. So, I decided to share not only the lovely colors, but the lovely words that some have written about spring. This line by Gzowski does indeed express my feelings lately!!

We need spring. We need it desperately, and, usually, we need it before God is willing to give it to us.
- Peter Gzowski

But as you wind down your day, take time to appreciate the beauty that can be seen most everywhere -- if you take the time to look.


And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Sensitive Plant

Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly--and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
- Omar Khayyám


Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.
- Virgil A. Kraft

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment.
- Ellis Peters

Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
- Gustav Mahler

Evening Beauty -- April is Here!

Well, in a few hours and I doubt it will make a lot of changes here overnight. But I had to go to the bank this morning and I've gotten where I take the camera with me wherever I go because I never know what I might stumble on that would require me taking a photo. Anyway, as I got out of the car I realized the sky had turned blue and the flowering trees lining the parking lot were this fragile pink and it had happened almost overnight. It didn't last long, the wind blew the clouds back across the sky and it was soon raining -- again. I'm glad I got this to remind me to have faith!
Be sure to click on the photo to see how really lovely the tree is.

Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly--and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
Omar Khayyam

April
The roofs are shining from the rain,
The sparrows twitter as they fly,
And with a windy April grace
The little clouds go by.
Yet the back yards are bare and brown
With only one unchanging tree--
I could not be so sure of Spring
Save that it sings in me.
Sara Teasdale

Spring Really is Here!!

We had a little dab and dribble of sunshine today and I took the camera and Sam and headed to the park above the harbor. There were sailboats out on the water and if you enlarge the pictures by clicking on them you can see the Cascade Mountains in the distance. There was even a tiny patch of shivering daffodils! They looked scrawny and a little beat up, but it was a spot of color!



As I started back to the car I noticed a yard across the street that looked so lovely even though the tree and shrubs were really just beginning to blossom out, but again, it was the first real sign of spring that I've seen and it looked gorgeous! Again, to really get a good look at them, click to embiggen!