indeed....
May Day 2013
"The Earth laughs in flowers." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
SPRING
In spring, red sings from treetops: cheer-cheer-cheer, each note dropping like a cherry into my ear. Red turns the maples feathery, sprouts in rhubarb spears: Red squirms on the road after rain.
Green is new in spring. Shy. Green peeks from buds, trembles in the breeze. Green floats through rain-dark trees, and glows, mossy-soft, at my feet. Green drips from tips of leaves onto Pup's nose. In spring, even the rain tastes green.
Yellow slips goldfinches their spring jackets. Yellow shouts with light! In spring, yellow and purple hold hands. They beam at each other with bright velvet faces. First flowers, first friends
In spring, white sounds like storms: snapped twigs and bouncing hail, blink of lightning and rattling BOOM!
Blue needs sun. Without it, blue hides. Then suddenly, sparkling spring sky!
White can be quite, too: delicate petals filled with light smell white.
And here, in secret places, peeps pink: hairless, featherless, the color of new things.
Red Sings from Treetops: a year in colors By Joyce Sidman
pockets of sunshine here in Seattle
" And may you find enough courage to acknowledge your artistry, and to recognize the little ways your life teems with canvases."
racing into Mother's Day....
10.5 – As my friend Nicola pointed out to me, this girl is half way to 21.... EEK!
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway. In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway." – Mother Teresa
"Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it." - Rafiki, from The Lion King
This picture above was taken on 5/15/13.... It's hard to believe that it has been a month since Boston...
Giving thanks for an extraordinary gift of an ordinary day.
As my friend Elizabeth said so well:
"Color amidst the grey....isn't that what we hope for on rainy days that fall on such an anniversary."
an unbelievable experience to paint with Dale Chihuly this month at the Chihuly Museum at Seattle Center
"Contemplate how you are being asked to give your heart to God amidst your everyday activities. Be prepared to meet your grace in every circumstance of life." St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
celebrating EIGHT!!
May 23, 2013
Many years ago a friend quoted a portion of the poem "Spring" on their birth announcement and it has always stuck with me:
"What is all this juice and all this joy?" Gerard Manley Hopkins
It was written by the poet who was inspired by the love he had for his son..... What an appropriate quote for this month of May celebrating Taylor's 8th birthday!
bike trip to Victoria over Memorial Weekend
amen....
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