April is poetry month...

...& I'll be adding to the blog some familiar favourites and new finds, like this:

Spring

By KARLA KUSKIN

I’m shouting

I’m singing

I’m swinging through trees

I’m winging skyhigh

With the buzzing black bees.

I’m the sun

I’m the moon

I’m the dew on the rose.

I’m a rabbit

Whose habit

Is twitching his nose.

I’m lively

I’m lovely

I’m kicking my heels.

I’m crying “Come Dance”

To the fresh water eels.

I’m racing through meadows

Without any coat

I’m a gamboling lamb

I’m a light leaping goat

I’m a bud

I’m a bloom

I’m a dove on the wing.

I’m running on rooftops

And welcoming spring!

Source: Poetry Foundation

Wordless Wednesday

Long bloomer

Helleborus orientalis  in the courtyard garden

Photographed on the 17th of February, 2012. Still blooming on the 22nd of March, the day I moved this photo from the front page to the Preserves.

an early favourite

Prunus x subhirtella 'Whitcomb', March 15th, 2012.

"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week" ~Joseph Addison

Especially if you set expectations and schedules aside and simply follow the rhythms of the day and season.

 Waking up to blue sky & snow-capped peaks in the country

Afternoon hanami (cherry blossom viewing) at Lost Lagoon

Sunset walk along the seawall

Photo notes: All images taken on Sunday, February 5th, 2012.
Top: View from my mom's breakfast table, Chilliwack, B.C.
Middle: Flowering cherry blossoms, Prunus x subhirtella 'Autumnalis Rosea' at Lost Lagoon, Stanley Park.
Bottom: View of the Stanley Park seawall, English Bay, and Kits Point (across the water) at sunset.