Day 76 – Wild Spring
“Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly […]
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“Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly […]
“A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of […]
“A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.” ~ David Steindl-Rast
“I wonder if the sap is stirring yet, If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate, If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun And crocus fires are kindling one by one: Sing robin, sing: […]
“Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!” ~ William Wordsworth
“Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration… in the very teeth of winter.” ~ Louise Wilder
“Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.” ~ Hugh Newell Jacobsen I wish I could say these are in […]
The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within. William C. Bryant If you are curious this is a Hyacinth flower that I bought from the shop the other […]
“The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love – the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.” ~ Dorothea Dix