Come Faster Spring!

Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"




It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
~Charles Dickens

Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

Hello Spring

“In the spring, at the end of the day,
you should smell like dirt."
Margaret Atwood

“April is the cruelest month,
breeding lilacs out of the dead land,
mixing memory and desire,
stirring dull roots with spring rain.”
T.S. Eliot

“Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.”
Dorothy Parker

“It's spring fever.... 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

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes,
and the grass grows by itself”
Zen Proverb