FIRST DAY OF SPRING - The Wintery Earth Awakens

(03/20/2021)

Today is the first day of Spring, with the world around us coming to life, following the mildest winter on record in the Mountain State. 2008 PHLOX AT BLAND HOUSE, MT. ZION RIDGE Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. - Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke HUR LILACS - Awake, thou wintry earth. Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness! - Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn" ROSEBUD TREES, RT. 16 - Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. - Virgil A. Kraft MT. ZION CHURCH - 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" FORSYTHIA ON BARNES RUN If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flowerin spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom. - Audra Foveo

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