I just love spring! The weather was gorgeous this afternoon so I took a walk around my large yard to check out the beauty of the spring flowers. The other day I wrote about the dandelions that cover most of our lawn, and today I noticed that the violets that carpet much of our long field are in full bloom as well!
I guess I have always been partial to violets because their beautiful purple blossoms just seem to herald the arrival of spring here in the middle Appalachians. Crocuses let us know that spring is on its way, but the violets let us know that it has indeed arrived.
Another sure sign of spring are the lovely bluebonnets that come up in our front yard each April, and this afternoon they were swaying in the breeze like tiny colorful hula dancers, enticing my senses with their beauty and grace. And just a few feet away from the bluebonnets stood a number of red, white and yellow tulips doing a little spring dance of their own!
As if not to be outdone by the “flowers”, the apple, cherry and pear trees in my back yard are in full bloom as well. My dad always had fruit trees on his property, and I really enjoy the sweet aroma that fills the air when they burst out of their dormant wintry shell and come alive with the gentle rains and warm breezes of spring. Unfortunately I have a cold at the moment so the fragrance was less satisfying than usual, but hopefully I’ll be over it and able to “smell” again before the blossoms have all blown away in the wind.
Of course it is early April, so we can expect to have another cold snap or two before the warm weather is here to stay. But today was one of those perfect spring days like the ones I have such fond memories of from my childhood years when I was growing up in “the holler”. God is good in all that He does, and I believe that springtime is His gift to us all as payback for having to endure the cold winds and bone-chilling temperatures of winter.
Spring is wonderful!!!