It's Spring!

Spring is here!  Spring is here!

Spring is that delicious time of year when the Earth renews its loveliness and reveals secrets once hidden in the frozen ground.  Let's celebrate!

I love the contrast of the riotous pink against the stark bare tree branches.


Magnolias are so glorious!

A robin delights in the day.

Flowers are medicine for the soul.

species tulip

redbuds!

Daffodils dance in the breeze! (12 second video)

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Spring audaciously revels in its glorious renewal!

My Blogging Business Artisans team on etsy hosts a new Challenge every month. The purpose is to encourage us to explore our creativity, to stretch our imaginations.  
Cynthia of Antiquity Travelers set forth the following Challenge for the month of March:

"Early Spring.  Since our friend Punxsutawney Phil said we'd have an early start to spring...let's celebrate!  and hope he is right (fingers crossed)."

(He WAS right!  at least where I live.)


QUESTION:  What inspires you to create?

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Spring!

beautiful daffodil growing in my yard!

Wordless Wednesday/Wordy Wednesday--where I linked up:

Create With Joy (+ a giveaway!)

 Mama to 5 Blessings

 A Southern Daydreamer






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magnolias

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Spring!

Wordless Wednesday/Wordy Wednesday--where I linked up:

The Art and Tree Chatter of Aquariann

Create With Joy



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yard

Spring is so lovely!  I walked around my yard today with a camera, listening to bird song....

Hawthorn tree blossoms

 soapwort

hosta

Columbine

backyard view

 

 blueberry blossoms, pink lemonade

 

Japanese fern

 buttercup

mixed lettuces growing in a pot on my deck.  I crowd the plants together and then harvest the outer leaves. 

 

weed

Alphabe-Thursday, hosted by Ms Jenny, is so much fun!  This week our letter is "Y." Come visit others' submissions HERE and join in the fun!






Y is for Yard and Yellow, too!
 
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It's Spring!

It's Spring!  It's Spring!  It's Spring!!!
Birds are chirping, owls are hooting, the sun is shining (actually it's not!), trees are budding, blooms are busting forth!

My daughter and I shared bags of mixed tulips and daffodils last Fall.  so fun to see all the variety!

pear tree blossoms, tiny green leaves on trees, lemon thyme, muscari, nest, phlox

Wordless Wednesday--where I linked up:

The Art and Tree Chatter of Aquariann

Create With Joy

  Pictimilitude








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signs of Spring!

at last!  at last!

swelling buds

hyacinth--the leaves are deer food

miniature daffodils

It's finally happened!  Spring is on its way!

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Happy Spring!

“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”

~Frances Hodgson Burnett in The Secret Garden

photo by me © 2012

Birth

The bud is on the bough again,

The leaf is on the tree.

~Charles Jeffreys, 1807-1865, The Meeting of Spring and Summer

Spring, when from the Earth, life bursts forth anew, calls to mind other births I have witnessed.  I remember as a young child, watching, enthralled, as my neighbor's collie gave birth to her puppies.  Later I watched my cats have kittens.  This always seemed such a miracle--new young lives, soft and fluffy, emerging from within an already existing being.

Much later, I witnessed the birth of a friend's child.   And there were my own two children, if witnessing is what you can call what I did.

Being pregnant with my firstborn, a son, was an amazing experience as I felt the life within me stir.  The time of his birth remains a special number to us. 

My daughter was born at home with 2 midwives, an experience over which we still marvel.

This post is for the etsybloggers' street team carnival which asks us to tell of a memorable birthday.  This carnival will be posted on Monday, April 26 on Joey and Aleethea's blog.

Happy Birthday, Sandra!

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Spring Clouds: SkyWatch Friday

 Yesterday, I was fortunate to be able to sit outside and work for a few hours.  The deep

 blue of the sky and the amazing capricious cloud formations captivated me.

I love the young Spring-green of the baby leaves and the still-bare branches of trees.

See the streak of the plane in this one (above)?

The temperature was perfect with just a whisper of a breeze.   AAh...the gloriousness of Spring!

 This post is for SkyWatch Friday hosted by Wren, fishing guy, Sylvia, Klaus, and Sandy.

Come join us in this awesome meme, link up, and meet folks from all over the globe.
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Spring Fever

This etsybloggers' team carnival asks the all-important question, "What do you do to escape the "Cabin Fever" doldrums?"

revel in Spring flowers

make something crafty with friends

(I'm on the far right--above photo, just in case you thought it might be the one below!)

enjoy kitties

make new discoveries with my camera

ride my bike

cook something to share

(herbs in planter)

(beard tongue and fairy roses)

plan a garden 

dream of vacation

and appreciate each day as the gift that it is.

LINKS:
Spring flowers--  snowdrops    crocus

Artichoke Tapenade recipe

This carnival will be published on Monday, March 29 on our team blog!
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