and after winter folweth grene may.
-geoffrey chaucer
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image credit: zazzle.com
May2
Tag Archives: spring
Apr23
rainy night.
“it was a rainy night. it was the myth of a rainy night.”
― j
― j
oh, how i love rainy nights.
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The University of Michigan Bentley Library
a rainy night on campus. 1909
Photo credit: Daines & Nickels (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
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Apr9
easter bonnets.
happy day to all who celebrate the return of spring
in their own very fine way.
“i still believe in santa, the easter bunny, the tooth fairy and true love. don’t even try to tell me different.”
-dolly parton
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art credits: vicky sawyer
Apr8
he bring of the chocolate.
“the rabbit of easter. he bring of the chocolate.”
-david sedaris
photo credit: from my favorite chocolatier with a cause, peace by chocolate
link to my earlier post about their story:
Apr7
rabbit shadows.
“the other day when i was walking through the woods,
i saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree”
-steven wright
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art credit: vicky sawyer
Apr6
rabbit coming soon. is that you?
“hallo, rabbit,” he said, “is that you?”
“let’s pretend it isn’t,” said rabbit, “and see what happens.”
― A. A. Milne
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art credit: painting (Counting Invisible Stars) by Tetsuhiro Wakabayashi
Mar21
listen, earth sings.
Claude Monet’s gardens in Giverny, France
“Spring has returned again.
The Earth is like a child
that knows poems by heart;
so many poems, so many verses,
patient toil winning her prizes at last.
Strict, the old teacher.
We loved the whiteness in the old
gentleman’s beard,
its bright snow.
Now when we ask what the green,
what the blue is,
Earth knows the answer,
has learned it.
She knows.
Earth, you’re on holiday,
lucky one: play now!
Play with us children!
We’ll try to catch you.
Glad, joyous Earth!
The gladdest must win.
Every lesson the old teacher
taught her,
all that is printed in roots
and laborious stems:
now she sings it!
Listen, Earth sings.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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“The inspiration for this sonnet came from
a visit to Ronda, in southern Spain, in the
winter of 1912-13. Rilke had overheard a
group of schoolchildren singing in the Convent
of Santo Domingo, accompanied only by a
triangle and tambourine. He didn’t know what
their song meant, but the light-hearted
animation of their singing is reflected in the
cadences of the second and third stanzas.”
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on international poetry day
Mar19
power nap.
this guy….. acting all hangry and ready for spring
MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – On March 7, a Yellowstone National Park wildlife biologist on a radio telemetry flight observed the first grizzly bear of 2023 to emerge from hibernation. The adult bear, estimated at 300-350 pounds, was seen near the remains of a bison carcass in Pelican Valley, in the central-eastern part of the park. Male grizzlies come out of hibernation in early March. Females with cubs emerge in April and early May. When bears emerge from hibernation, they look for food and often feed on elk and bison that died over the winter. Sometimes, bears will react aggressively toward people when feeding on carcasses. All of Yellowstone National Park is bear country.
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“most animals show themselves sparingly. the grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness.
it has no need to hide. if it were a person, it would laugh loudly in quiet restaurants,
boastfully wear the wrong clothes for special occasions, and probably play hockey.”
-craig childs, the animal dialogues: uncommon encounters in the wild
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credits: national park service, jim peaco, grizzly bear on swan creek flat – photo
Mar1
undecided.
march arrives and mother nature sits undecided
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“the seasons change their manner,
as the year had found some months asleep and leapt them over.”
-william shakespeare
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ann arbor, mi, usa – march 2023 – mlive photo credit
Dec30
in the dark of december.
“i heard a bird sing in the dark of december.
a magical thing.
and sweet to remember.
we are nearer to spring than we were in september.
i heard a bird sing in the dark of december.”
-oliver herford
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art credit: “Winter Moon”, photograph by Ginette Brosseau
This dark winter landscape photo was taken not far from her home
along the shores of the St. Lawrence river in Quebec.
I didn't have my glasses on.... 