Promises Kept

Spring kept its promise.  Here it is!  If you compare the below picture with the one on my last post you will see what I mean. . . .

The Promise of Spring

♫Bird Song♫

If it weren't for the lovely bird song that fills my garden it would seem pretty dismal right now. . . .

 but with a little closer inspection I discovered the promise of Spring!

Waiting for Spring

I'm sitting here at my desk watching the snow falling outside my window. . . .

And I was thinking about Spring.  I know much of the country has had more than its fair share of winter this year and many of you are also eager for greenery and flowers!  So I wanted to send you to my very first Morning Musing's post--one of my favorites--and hope it helps tide you over until Spring does finally arrive.  Be sure to click on the link to the accompanying music. . . .

An Early Morning Walk

More favorites. . . .

Serenade to Spring

Burst of Flowers

What's in Bloom

A Foggy Morning

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Take Joy!

View Outside My Kitchen Window - May

♫A Love Story♫

As you can see, there's much more green to be seen from the view outside my kitchen window on this fine May day.  My thoughts of late have been of new life.  Spring not only brings the sprouting of flowers and leaves, but for us, a granddaughter.  Yesterday we were delighted to spend the afternoon with Olivia June (aka Olive) and capture these many faces of our three-and-a-half-week-old newborn grandbaby....

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf,

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day

Nothing gold can stay.

         --Robert Frost

Peter Rabbit and Friends

♫Spring Charm♫

It's a beautiful Spring afternoon with all the pinks and different shades of green emerging from the brown and gray.  All the villagers have come out on such a fine day.  They are gathered around Squirrel Nutkin to see the pictures of their lovely English countryside in Susan Branch's exciting book, A Fine Romance.... 

artist: Susan Branch

You can read more about Susan's visit to Hill Top Farm where Beatrix Potter's little friends live.

Waiting for Color

Spring is getting here, slowly but surely.  I looked up that idiom.  It means "slow but unstoppable." I sure hope so!  When I use it I mean, "Surely, Spring will come, won't it?!"  Except for a few daffodils and other Spring bulbs things still look pretty brown around here.

In the meantime, I thought I'd play around with my photo program and see if I could make a slide show of flowers over the years from my garden.  Turn up the volume and make it full screen to get the full effect....

                
I hope this helps tide you over until Spring comes to your part of the country.

Out and About - March

♫Here, There, and Everywhere♫

It seems the weather is going to dominate this month's Out and About...again.  My View Outside My Kitchen Window post on the 1st showed only patches of snow on the ground.  This is what it looked like three days later....

First Day of Spring

♫The Unknown♫

This is what it looked like outside my window as I took down my Winter decor and put up the Spring decor this past Monday....

It was St. Patrick's Day and I decided I was done with Winter even if the weather wasn't!  I had my own evidence from the planter I overwintered in the window that Spring was here ....coleus, petunias, and verbena were blooming....

Serenade to Spring

♫Serenade to Spring♫

Spring will be over soon....not officially for several weeks, but weather-wise the heat will begin to take it's toll on my garden.  For now I shall enjoy it!  Won't you come along with me.....

The roses are in full bloom!