I just spent a few days on the West Coast where nature is at full throttle. I was by the ocean, and I sat in the sunshine. Everything around me was in bloom, and I was surrounded by palm trees in 90 degrees.
I came home to NY, and as I walked my usual walk to the subway this morning...I looked up. I heard the birds, felt the sunshine, and saw everything around me ready to burst and bloom! My favorite thing about Spring is...the freshness of the leaves and flowers. You can see their grooves, and literally see their DNA as if they're newly born. You can smell spring in the air...it just WANTS to happen!
So please, enjoy this. While I sleep off the jetlag and dream of warmer breezes....
Winters know
Easily to shed the snow,
And the untaught Spring is wise
In cowslips and anemones.
Nature, hating art and pains,
Baulks and baffles plotting brains;
Casualty and Surprise
Are the apples of her eyes;
But she dearly loves the poor,
And, by marvel of her own,
Strikes the loud pretender down.
For Nature listens in the rose,
And hearkens in the berry's bell,
To help her friends, to plague her foes,
And like wise God she judges well.
Yet doth much her love excel
To the souls that never fell,
To swains that live in happiness,
And do well because they please,
Who walk in ways that are unfamed,
And feats achieve before they're named
.~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Easily to shed the snow,
And the untaught Spring is wise
In cowslips and anemones.
Nature, hating art and pains,
Baulks and baffles plotting brains;
Casualty and Surprise
Are the apples of her eyes;
But she dearly loves the poor,
And, by marvel of her own,
Strikes the loud pretender down.
For Nature listens in the rose,
And hearkens in the berry's bell,
To help her friends, to plague her foes,
And like wise God she judges well.
Yet doth much her love excel
To the souls that never fell,
To swains that live in happiness,
And do well because they please,
Who walk in ways that are unfamed,
And feats achieve before they're named
.~Ralph Waldo Emerson
