Spring is in the air...
Today ends the winter of my discontent.
Tomorrow...
"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
Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"
“Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.”
~Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”
~Robert H. Schuller
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
~Doug Larson
Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.
~W. Earl Hall
Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;
To-day the glint of green is there;
Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;
I know no thing so wondrous fair,
No miracle so strangely rare.
I wonder what will next be there!
~L.H. Bailey
My favourite flowering tree, the Magnolia, is at its best right now. I've just bought one to plant in my front garden so that it's flowers will bloom outside my bedroom window & mark the coming of spring every year.
Tomorrow...
"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
Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"
“Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.”
~Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”
~Robert H. Schuller
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
~Doug Larson
Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.
~W. Earl Hall
Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;
To-day the glint of green is there;
Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;
I know no thing so wondrous fair,
No miracle so strangely rare.
I wonder what will next be there!
~L.H. Bailey
My favourite flowering tree, the Magnolia, is at its best right now. I've just bought one to plant in my front garden so that it's flowers will bloom outside my bedroom window & mark the coming of spring every year.