Looks like another pretty day here on Georgia's West Coast. Sparkling sunshine streaming in the windows.(No, I don't feel badly over how dirty the windows are... I choose to devote my feelings of guilt to other less productive projects!) I was up and out, generally getting dressed before poking my head out the door. Walked up the driveway to pick up the newspaper, and wow! I think there are twice as many daffodils with smiles open this morning as compared to yesterday. Showing what a good drenching rain, and some warm days can produce (after one plants dozens and dozens of bulbs) looking like mid-March instead of cold Feb.
And sitting here at the dining table, looking out at the area where I planted all those many hyacinth bulbs: they are waking up, attentive to their DNA, doing what they were designed to do. So fast you can almost see them growing. Like the nature shows that have the time lapse photography of roses: from bud to bloom in an instant. Or turtle eggs incubating and cracking open in a matter of seconds, with flippy little sea turtles, flapping industriously across the beach, headed towards the moon.
I was driving around town in the past couple of days and saw a Japanese magnolia tree, in full bloom, covered with rose-y pink blossoms - which means as soon as they get gloriously open, we should expect a night of freezing temp. or a powerful windstorm that will do them in. But there will be many others that have not yet put on their finery, and ready to perform as the days lengthen and sun warms the northern hemisphere. Sometimes I think it might be nice to live in a place closer to 'middle earth', near the equator where it never gets cold enough for wool sweaters and lots of layers - but we'd miss the joy of Spring!!!!
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