"Every spring is the only spring-a perpetual astonishment."~Ellis Peters

Pennyroyal The Setting & Inspiration for Nat...

"Every spring is the only spring-a perpetual astonishment."~Ellis Peters

"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

Awake, thou wintry earth -

Fling off thy sadness!

Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth

Your ancient gladness!

~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"

*The Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Photographs by my mom, Pat Churchman

"April is a promise that May is bound to keep." ~Hal Borland

"Where man sees but withered leaves,

God sees sweet flowers growing."

~Albert Laighton

"And Spring arose on the garden fair,

Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;

And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast

rose from the dreams of its wintry rest."

~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant"

*Virginia Bluebells in my garden, flowers given to me by my grandmother.

"I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth?" ~Edward Giobbi

"The sun was warm but the wind was chill.

You know how it is with an April day."

~Robert Frost

*Poppies and iris in the garden.

"April hath put a spirit of youth in everything." ~William Shakespeare

"Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;

To-day the glint of green is there;

Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;

I know no thing so wondrous fair,

No miracle so strangely rare.

I wonder what will next be there!"

~L.H. Bailey

"If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall." ~Nadine Stair

*Country Lane in the valley.

"Spring in verses,

Verses in spring."

~Violet Gartenlicht

"Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire." ~Virgil

*A country roadside not far from our farm.

"The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring."

~Bern Williams

"Spring is when life's alive in everything."

~Christina Rossetti

"The year's at the spring,

And day's at the morn;

Morning's at seven;

The hill-side's dew-pearl'd;

The lark's on the wing;

The snail's on the thorn;

God's in His heaven–

All's right with the world!"

~Robert Browning

*My parent's yard.

"A little Madness in the Spring

Is wholesome even for the King."

~Emily Dickinson

"Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil."

~Bishop Reginald Heber

"I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils."

~William Wordsworth