Flower for the Day Lily for Easter 3-31-24

Sorry. I noticed that this was to be sent out yesterday.

Here is a Lily for Easter. It is not an Easter Lily but rather a white striped Amaryllis.

It so beautiful who cares? Have a great Easter.

In the Springtime

Hand in hand, we fluttered like two butterflies

among the fragrant flowers of the field and meandered,

 singing songs, along a stream. 

No agendas to keep to; no schedules to curtail the pure pleasure 

that we took in consuming every lovely hour of our Saturday. 

With our picnic lunch, we sat down on a blanket. 

Later we lay looking up at clouds. 

Transported to the wonderland of our imagination, 

we named them fluffy mountain ranges, bunnies, sheep, 

and Easter lily petals until they morphed into lopsided bearded faces, 

huge white polar bears and cotton-breathing dragons. 

Unexpectedly, the clouds grew dark, and suddenly, 

we saw and felt large raindrops splatter on our skin. 

We fled our happy field, arriving home - two children, 

wet and laughing, just as the spring shower let up. 

How were we to know in the springtime of our lives 

that the field and the rain from which we fled 

I'd one day write about as metaphors for youth.

Andrea Dietrich,2013