Happy May Day!
Doesn't this photograph look as though it came from a May Basket?
I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose
I would always greet it in a garden.
- Ruth StoutThis is the first blossom I've had on my PM Rhododendron!
Spring is God's way of saying,
"One more time!"
- Robert Orben
Brunnera Macrophylla "Heartleaf Brunnera"
The flowers are the size of "Forget-Me-Nots"
(Very Tiny!)
A delicate fabric of bird song
Floats in the air,
The smell of wet wild earth
Is everywhere.
Oh, I must pass nothing by
Without loving it much,
The raindrop try with my lips,
The grass with my touch;
For how can I be sure
I shall see againThe world on the first of May
Shining after the rain?
- Sara Teasdale, May Day
Vinca Minor
Vinca Minor, a close-up!
Spring - An experience in immortality.
- Henry D. Thoreau
These are the flowers of my Serviceberry.
(Last Fall's "Mystery Bush." I finally located
the landscaping blueprint!)
Emerging leaves of the serviceberry.
A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.
- Emily Dickinson, #1333
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another.
The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
- Henry Van Dyke, Fisherman's Luck, 1899
Here's where we need the Top Hat and Tails!
Mr. White-on-White, I think he's "Mt. Hood."
Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment.
- Ellis Peters
Tiarella (Foam Flower) "Black Snowflake"
"Black Snowflake" cameo shot!
Pulmonaria, Lungwort, "Diana Clare"
with the nodding approval of an "Ice Follies" Daffodil.
Tiarella (Foam Flower) "Iron Butterfly"
Again, Happy May Day!
