Welcome to the Vernal Equinox at the Lake House 3-20

I woke up today to a new kind of Spring.

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Flower for the Day And Hyacinths for the soul 3-17

Hyacinths appeared overnight.

If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft
And of thy simple store two loaves of bread alone are left
Sell one, and with the dole,
Buy hyacinths to feed the soul.

James Terry White (1907) - In celebration of the Persian Poet Sa'adi.

Don's Blog Look for the Silver Lining

Some silver linings have clouds.

FFTD Error

In yesterdays blog I used catnip (a mint scented plant product that cats like)instead of catkin (the furry protuberance on pussy willow).
Mea culpa.

Flower for the Day Catnip 3-14

The catnip on the pussy willow has begun to bloom.

Many seeds will be available.

Pussy Willow Poem

YOUR WORDS

our words are born, not spoken.  Dimensional, soft voweled words,   palpable to the eye or to the fingertip ...   exquisitely curved, as the young that wildflowers conceive.    Often I have watched your lips shape words  and your tongue nudge them out like small birds   not certain of their wings.  Your sweetest words   are those shaped ovally  like plums or wild birds' eggs.  The long bright ribbons you laugh  the multitudes of hyacinth and bluebells.    When I see words like soft gray catkins I know  they are of romance whatever else my ears register.  Your mouth is like the flesh of a ripe fig,  I often want to take your words unsaid.  The brown honey-bear slips his red tongue into   the nest of sleeping bees.  Slurping out the honey as they sleep.  The sweet natural taste.  The pussy-willow feel of your words   is lovelier than their shape or music.    COPYRIGHT 2012 ACB  

Copyright © Athena Beauchamp | Year Posted 2014 

Flower for the Day Pussy Willow 3-10

American pussy willow (Salix discolor)  appears in  early spring when its furry catkins emerge from the branch. A catkin is the slim cylindrical flower cluster with no petals. It is usually insect pollinated.

The catkins appear well before the willow leaves.

I am fortunate to photograph these because the deer always come along and strip them from the branch.

Flower for the Day Daffodils 3-9

These daffodils have been blooming all week.

Daffodils 

She doesn't mind the great length
or the girth of it.
Bushes without leaves
are not green as he kisses it.
The woods
are not deep without tree's
that are seen.
While the path that she walks
he chose in her dream.
Stopping she dropped what it was
that he picked.
A daffodil that bleeds white sap
if too hard it is picked.

Is It Poetry

Flower for the Day Crocus II

New striking crocuses have appeared.

Flower for the Day Crocus 3-7

It is the first week of March and the crocuses have been blooming for a week. The yellows came first by several days. They disappoint only by disappearing so quickly.

Crocuses are in the iris family. Most have 3 anthers. The leaves have a central white stripe.