Posts Tagged: springtime
colour – I’ve missed you
I think the most demoralizing thing about winter is, for me, the lack of colour. In April, we finally saw a few bulb flowers emerge – but things were so dull, rainy and cold, even tulips and crocus seemed reluctant to flourish. Flower boxes are being filled up outside of storefronts and that's great, but it's not until nature lets her hair down and goes crazy that the colours really make themselves known in the psyche.
All that rain did encourage more green, as it always does. And now – after several warm, sunshiny days, trees are budding, leaves are popping, and yellow has arrived in the form of forsythia and dandelions.
May is really good at making weather in my part of the world – the humidity hasn't arrived, the sky is clear and blue, flowers are fresh and perky and green is all rich and cool, tempting you to jump in and bathe in it.
Welcome back colour, I've missed you. Today you're beautiful thing number thirty-eight.
some beautiful things of a march morning
On the morning of the 20th day of posting found beauty:
- Walking into my kitchen and seeing the big spray of tulips in the morning light. One of the best "good for me" investments I made all week.
- Morning light – another gorgeous sunshiny spring morning in which the sun reflects off everything with a gentle luminescence in eggshell and yellow tones and uplifts you the moment you walk out into it.
- Blueberries and banana with milk for breakfast. Luscious sweetness I don't usually go for first thing, but it's the current week's fixation.
another week around some beautiful moments
Maybe we should all be really thankful for winter if only because we get to experience such an appreciation for the onset of spring. My world is readying for the grand re-birthing of nature in all her glorious forms and we're celebrating already. Here are some moments of beauty from a sunshiny week in which sits the fifteenth day of thirty in posting such:
- A whistling bus driver who barks me good day: “Have a great one darlin”
- Air that no longer bites my skin but touches it. (In a month or two it will be kissing it.)
- A really good cup of strong tea, made for me by a colleague with herbs sent to him from his peeps back in East Jerusalem
- Bright and real smiles from strangers in the street – if we could just bottle this sunshine…
- An expanded network of lovely and talented blogland people, because I took a risk with some creative play in Magpie Tales
- Birdsong. The birds are going bonkers, just like humanity, with the spring-like weather
- Longer days. Going outside at the end of the work day and finding sun setting everything under it aglow and lighting the very air around you in purples and golds and blues
- Long walks. I'm once again enjoying the spiritual and psychological as well as healthful benefits of extended walking on sidewalks that were laden with snow and ice only a few weeks ago
- Planning two summer vacations, one with an old and dear friend and one with a special niece and thinking about another summer season spent outdoors
published in the beautiful Bella Grace!
