Spring Smells Good

I love Spring. I also love summer and fall and even winter. That narrows things down a little, doesn’t it? But I wouldn’t really want to live where there weren’t seasons. Where it was always warm. Where the sun shone all summer and only made cameo appearances in the winter. I love the spring sunshine and when the flowers burst into bloom and chase away the last of the winter blues. So here are some quotes to keep you springing through Spring.

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day He created Spring. …Bern Williams

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. …Joseph Addison

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling. …Claude Pepper

While you’re pedaling, try to pedal past some lilac bushes and take a deep breath to get that great lilac scent all the way down to your toes. If any of you have read my Hollyhill books know, that’s Jocie’s favorite scent.

And then it won’t be long till you can roll your car window down and drive by some locust trees in bloom. Ahh! We had locust trees all over our yard where I grew up. You sometimes stepped on the locust thorns, but spring smelled good! The locust bloom scent was the favorite of Jocie’s dad, David, in the Scent of Lilacs. With that title, you have to know the scent of lilacs is going to play a part in the story.

I have a couple of lilac bushes in my yard. I started the first one from a piece of a lilac bush that my brother-in-law dug up from a bush in his yard years ago. I planted it in the yard of the old farmhouse where we lived at the time. The bush lived but hadn’t grown much by the time we built our new house and moved. That lilac bush came with me. Here it grew big enough that my husband dug up some of its roots and started several more bushes.

Now I only have two still living. One of them is that original lilac bush I moved to this house over 50 years ago. It’s getting old and not blooming the way it used to. You know that’s sort of how I feel sometime. Old and not blooming the way I used to. But the bush has lilac blooms this year. The frost didn’t get the buds. So I can go out and do some lilac sniffing.  I’ve already brought in a few blooms.

Maybe no matter the age, whether we’re talking people or flower bushes, we can all still enjoy spring and do some blooming.

What do you enjoy seeing or smelling bloom in the spring?