Signs of Spring

Spring is here, at least the flowers and the trees seem to think so. We have our greenhouse up and seeds planted, anticipating an early crop of spinach and nasturtiums for a lovely salad.

Spring is a  time for renewal, growth and change; how are you marking the season?

     A Prayer in Spring by Robert Frost

OH, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.

For this is love and nothing else is love,
To which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends he will,
But which it only needs that we fulfill. 

 

Madeira Beach

We journeyed to Florida to escape the dreary weather here in Georgia and what do you know- it was freezing down there and we ended up coming back a day early. Yes, I read the forecast, but we had booked the flight a month earlier and I somehow tried to convince myself that it would be warm, it wasn't. All was not lost though-it's nice and sunny today in Mableton and there's nothing like a vacation to remind you of how much you love home!

A little side note on Madeira Beach: it's near St Petersburg and it's mainly retiree's that go there but that's what I like about it. No screaming kids, no teenagers getting drunk and trying to hook up, just old people floating in the pool and taking long walks on the beach. It's a great place to go and just kick back and relax. There aren't too many of those gimmicky restaurants and cheesy putt putt places, if you want to go out it's fishing and golf and sunset cruises, just my style.

Ghost

Still Life

Stylin' and Profilin'

These are just a few shots from a set I did yesterday with the very fashionable Viktorya. Be sure to check out her style blog, Shukorina, here, for more pics and great style inspiration!

Reflections

Mushroom Village

What a neat little mushroom village I found growing in a rotten cut log in the woods! The log is hollow inside and all these tiny mushrooms are living inside. Check it out!

  It's been raining so there are some other fun guys around- these look like they are glowing:

And these guys are just neat:

 I like lichen, do you???