It’s here!

Winter went out with one last flurry. 


And then it was spring…

Never mind that there’s not much indication of it,


Until you look more closely…



and then you see…



The forsythia’s dancing days have come!



Spring is here!

--LS

Spring comes Marching…

Home again from visiting much family, just in time--to wind and weather, even a smattering of snow…and wild, wild winds that make the ferries stay huddled in their terminals, and  roadside trees come crashing down, and power fail… Days like these I’m glad for a wood stove…which can not only heat the house but can provide hot tea to go with a cold toast-less breakfast…



The willow still hasn’t any flaxen loveliness to her tresses.  She more resembles an old hag tossing about in the wind, making work for the picker-up-of-branches in our yard, again.


But at least the torrential rain took a break long enough for a short round through a much trod trail and back around home…



The dead give-away that spring is surely afoot is the upsurge of crocuses in all their brilliance!



And though I don’t know the name of this antique-looking bloom, it captured my eye and would surely make a splendid watercolor painting someday when I’m holed up in the house watching the rain fall…



Spring in on the march---watch for it!

--LS


Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase…Lev.26:4