“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.” (Pedro Calderon de la Barca) What’s your favorite color in the springtime? We have so many choices. The bright yellow of the forsythia that shout spring is really here, the rosy red of the redbud tree that pushes out blooms to light up the woods, …
Imagining Life’s Coming Attractions
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. (Robert Frost) I love spring. A time when the spring peepers make music so loud that even with the windows closed I can hear them trying to convince some other peepers to be their dates. I like how one week the trees are winter bare …
No Mystery about Spring, Tortoises and Winners
Spring is Springing! You may still be seeing snow out your window, but if so, just turn your eyes to the calendar instead. It says right on there that March 20 is spring!! And I’m ready to believe it even if winter isn’t. As Doug Larson says in this quote, “Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a …
Mystery Photos in Spring
“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” (Neil Armstrong) Do you like mysteries? I like reading them. Not sure I’d actually want to be involved with one although when I was a kid I imagined being like the Hardy Boys and solving all sort of mysteries. Now I’m happy when I can solve the …
The Mysteries of Spring
I had fun with my last mystery picture that wasn’t much of a mystery for some of you. So how about this one? Got a guess before you read on? While you’re thinking about it, let’s talk about Spring. Here in Kentucky it was so cool in March that spring tarried and dragged its feet, but then April came along …
Spring Blooming All Over
It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain Spring was late in coming this year, but it came in a hurry this week with …
A Time and Season for All Things
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. – Ecclesiates 3:1 (KJV) It’s March 21, the second day of Spring by the calendar. Normally, this time of the year we’re having windy and chilly days here in Kentucky with frosts at night and five different kinds of weather in the daytime. We can …
Right Now – Spring!
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” ~~Henri Matisse Spring – what a beautiful time of the year when hope takes wing and we simply know that something good is going to happen. Actually, official spring is about a week away, but the sun has decided on pushing spring toward us a little earlier this year …
Spring has sprung!
It’s officially spring by the calendar now. And on top of that we’re having this super moon. I went out to look for it a while ago and it must be cloudy. I did see it last night, but not as it was coming up the way I wanted to. I am seeing everybody’s pictures – those people who went …
Spring Passions – Wildflowers and Basketball
~~Spring has officially sprung. It’s one of my four favorite seasons. That’s narrowing it down, isn’t it? Of course by the end of winter, spring is more than welcome and can definitely be a favorite time. The snow and cold of winter are all right for a short visit but this year winter out stayed its welcome. So spring was …