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  • Wordless Wednesday: Crocuses

    Wordless Wednesday: Crocuses

    crocuses

     

    It takes courage to be crocus minded.

    God, I would rather wait till June, like wise roses,
    when the hazards of winter are safely behind, and I am expected
    and everything is ready for roses.

    But crocuses? Highly irregular.
    Knifing through hard-frozen ground and snow, sticking their necks out,
    because they believe in Spring
    and have something personal and emphatic to say about it.

    ―Jo Sorley

     

    Not sure how I’ve never seen this quote before, but I love it very much.

    May we all be brave like crocuses.

     

     

  • Darling Buds of… February

    Darling Buds of… February

    first flowers of spring

     

    Every spring is the only spring—

    a perpetual astonishment.

    -Ellis Peters

    It never gets old, does it?

    I write this post every year. The quotes may be different, the photos better or worse. But every year the snowdrops and the crocuses push their way free and I cannot help but be amazed.

    This, I think, is one of the most important reasons to acquaint yourself and your kids to the outdoors, to be aware of nature’s rhythms and seasons.

    The yearly realization of your own capacity for hope.

    For joy.

    For rebirth.

    purple crocus
    2011 crocus
    crocus
    Crocus 2010
    2009 crocus
    2009 crocus
    2009 crocus
    2009 again
    2009 crocus and bee
    Clearly I had more free time in 2009.