We’re having showers here this morning and the air feels heavy, warm and springy. When it’s raining, I miss my little walks, and this past week has been so very hectic and unusual, I decided to take the umbrella, and you (will you walk with me?) and search for spring in the rain.
We can handle it. Do you have enough room under the umbrella?
And please watch out for the puddles. Thank goodness we wore our Rocket Dogs and not our flip flops for this walk, although it might feel good to get our toes wet. Still, we’ll wait a few weeks on that.
Oh look! The daffodils are so happy. We’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting for them, and now they are here. I think it’s only fair to the daffodils that we DO come out in the rain and see them. Don’t you?
We must stop here. This is one of my favorite plants come spring. This is Akebia, or chocolate vine, and it has the most beautiful, most sweet-smelling blooms ever. Some people consider it invasive, but I keep it confined to the arbor here and have not had a problem with it the 4 years or so that it’s been here.
It sort of looks to me like this garden creature has daffodils for arms. What do you think? Is it just me, or does he have daffodil arms?
I can be desperate for spring. It can be still cold outside. It can be snowy blowy outside. And yet, hellebores.
And that’s all I’m gonna say about that.
Let’s stand here under the umbrella and look at the goldfish for awhile. Do you mind? Isn’t the water pretty? I love the camellia that’s fallen into the water. Are we in Japan? I think we are. I know I am. Are you?
Shall we make up a Haiku to remember this moment?
Dancing down. Raindrops.
With the weight of spring they fall.
Flower, go with them.
Oh, be still my heart, the violets are peeking out at us! They are true harbingers of spring. When they come, I can breathe a sigh of relief. And speaking of heart, their little leaves are heart shaped. Violets are good medicine. These violets have made a tincture that sits in my herbal medicine cabinet. Shall we have some, so that spring within us can wake up too?
I love you, violets. All of you. You can always live in my garden.
Uh, sorry. I’m not letting you talk at all. Do you want to talk to the violets? Do you have a haiku to share? Are you ready for spring?
Thank you for walking with me.
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hi lynn–
glad your hubby is home and you once again have time for the garden–even if it happens to be just a few moments in the rain. i could sit by the pond and watch the fish and the raindrops for a LONG TIME.
happy spring! one of my sweet dear ones brought me a tiny violet bouquet last week.
thank you for the walk, lynn. it was simply heavenly.
great news…….all of our snow has melted away!!!! i took a walk in my own yard yesterday while the boys were playing. i picked up fallen twigs to place in the firepit and checked out the gardens. and do you know what i saw? green hosta leaves starting to peek out and those cotton-like blooms on my dwarf pussy willow tree!!! oh, it’s these little things that make me happy!
Dear Lynn,
Thank you for the walk in the rain; it was rather refreshing! How happy to have flowers and fishes, and dreams of spring.
I hope that things are settling down there (as much as possible) now, and that you have a nice, restful Sabbath tomorrow.
Love,
Marqueta
Lynn,
Wow, you are way ahead of me in the spring department. We are getting rain, though, so that will speed things up soon. I see some little sprouts here and there. I, too, am glad your husband is home. I hope he is feeling stronger every day.
Jenn
April, I can while away a lot of time in the garden. It’s so good for us though.
Connie, how exciting! Those are the things that make me happy too!
Marqueta, I know spring is not too far away for you. We still do have a few cold days left, but before we know it — SPRING — and you’ll have a baby too! Oh how sweet!
Jenn, I love to watch the little shoots. One day they are not there and then all of a sudden they are and then they take off!