Out Pops Spring in the Garden

"It is spring again. The earth is like a

child that knows poems by heart."

RAINER MARIA RILKE

Spring feels slow this year. It's not that long ago since snow fell... again. And some night temperatures still drop below freezing. Yet the earliest spring bulbs push through the warming brown earth and offer us a palette of Crocus, Squill, Grape hyacinth, and other lovelies. It's a godsend for colour starved eyes. The tulips will be next—green leafy clumps are already forming and every day they grow taller.

Here's a peek at what's making news in our corner of the world this week.

"The smallest of things can make you feel like

something is special about today."

SUSAN BRANCH, from her blog

"That is one good thing about this world...there

are always sure to be more springs."

L.M. MONTGOMERY, Anne of Avonlea

"Spring work is going on

with joyful enthusiasm."

JOHN MUIR, The Wilderness World of John Muir

“Can words describe the fragrance

of the very breath of spring?"

NELTJE BLANCHAN

 

"If people did not love one another, I really don't

see what use there would be in having any spring."

VICTOR HUGO, Les Misérables

"Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those

brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested

the thought that Hope traversed them at night,

and left each morning brighter traces of her steps."

CHARLOTTE BRONTË, Jane Eyre

"He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green.

Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrance

was not the still perfume of high summer;

it was the smell of cold, raw green."
PAUL HARDING

"It was such a spring day as breathes into a (wo)man

an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness,

a longing that makes (her) stand motionless,

looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out (her)

arms to embrace (s)he knows not what."

JOHN GALSWORTHY, The Forsyte Sage

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Wishing you a beautiful weekend,

Brenda

Photo credits:

Brenda @ It's A Beautiful Life