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Another spring…

20 Friday Mar 2015

Posted by Satin & Sand in Photography, Reflections, Writing

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Bird nest, Christina Rossetti, Nest, Poetry, Spring, Victorian poetry

Spring Nest by Joan Currie

Spring Nest © Joan Currie

Another Spring
If I might see another Spring,
I’d not plant summer flowers and wait:
I’d have my crocuses at once,
My leafless pink mezereons,
My chill-veined snow-drops, choicer yet
My white or azure violet,
Leaf-nested primrose; anything
To blow at once, not late.

If I might see another Spring
I’d listen to the daylight birds
That build their nests and pair and sing,
Nor wait for mateless nightingale;
I’d listen to the lusty herds,
The ewes with lambs as white as snow,
I’d find out music in the hail
And all the winds that blow.

If I might see another Spring –
Oh stinging comment on my past
That all my past results in “if” –
If I might see another Spring,
I’d laugh to-day, to-day is brief;
I would not wait for anything:
I’d use to-day that cannot last,
Be glad to-day and sing.

By Christina Rossetti

Savoring the signs of spring…

Spring Blossoms…

18 Sunday Mar 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Art, Design, Garden, Photography, Reflections

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Beautiful. Andrew Juniper, Blossoms, Photography, Spring, wabi sabi

© Joan Currie

Wabi sabi art is a distillation of their [the monks’] humble efforts to try and express, in a physical form, their love of a life balanced against the sense of serene sadness that is life’s inevitable passing. 
from wabi sabi, the japanese art of impermanence by Andrew Juniper

Perhaps I find the burst of blossoms so beautiful because it will not last.

because it’s…

05 Tuesday Apr 2011

Posted by Satin & Sand in Garden, Photography, Reflections

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beautiful, Beauty, Daffodils, e.e. cummings, Garden, Photography, Poetry, postaweek 2011, Spring

© Joan Currie

Spring
thingS

dare to do people

(& not
the other way

round)because it

‘s A
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e. e. cummings

Spring is upon us! Dare to do one new activity a week for the whole year starting today and see how your life will be transformed!

One lovely spring day in my childhood, I dared to give my mother the most extravagant bouquet she had ever beheld. I had a delightful time gathering daffodils and tulips from all the neighbors’ gardens in our area and beyond. So immense was the offering that I struggled to carry the jumble of flowers home without damaging any of the delicate petals. I was quivering with excitement when I extended it to her.

Regrettably, my mother’s reaction was not what I had imagined when she learned from whence the flowers had come. (My life was indeed transformed for many weeks thereafter!)

Spring has arrived…

21 Monday Mar 2011

Posted by Satin & Sand in Garden, Photography, Reflections

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beautiful, Beauty, Bloom, Pablo Neruda, Photography, postaweek2011, Spring, Tree Blossoms

© Joan Currie

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees. – Pablo Neruda

I heard the birds singing today for the first time in many months and everywhere I looked the trees were in bloom.

© Joan Currie

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