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Spring Has Sprung…

Pleasant, sunny days. Gentle breezes. Dogwoods in full bloom and the Redbuds trying to catch up. Green leaves and buds and shoots showing up overnight where there has been brown and gray. And me, sneezing my ass off … It truly must be Spring!


A little madness in the spring is wholesome even for the King.

— Emily Dickinson


Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

— Victor Hugo


The buds awake at touch of Spring
From Winter’s joyless dream…

— Mackenzie Bell, Spring’s Immortality


Spring weather is life a child’s face, changing three times a day.

— Chinese Proverb


Spring’s an expansive time: yet I don’t trust
March with its peck of dust,
Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers,
Nor even May, whose flowers
One frost may wither thro’ the sunless hours.

– Christina Georgina Rossetti, Winter: My Secret


Ah, spring. When a young man’s fancy turns to love baseball taxes!

— Anon Adaptation

4 Comments so far

  1. Rain April 13th, 2006 9:33 am

    you had to remind me… looking suspiciously at the cottonwoods down along the creek and wondering how long I have before they bust out with all the glory of their reproductive cycle and start me sneezing!

  2. Joy April 13th, 2006 1:11 pm

    I don’t have allergies, but a lot of my friends do. I know it can be miserable. Spring is so beautiful…other than that. I hope you can enjoy it Winston.

  3. johnno April 15th, 2006 1:53 am

    Spring is the best….along with autumn (Fall) it’s mild, sunny and FABULOUS. It’s getting a little cooler down here which is a welcome relief.

  4. ainelivia April 25th, 2006 3:02 am

    my husbands got his annual hayfever right now, he’s miserable. my fruit trees are in bloom and the forsythia, so spring has definitely arrived in north west london, hope you get some relief from the sneezing