As promised, this weekend I am taking you all for a walk around my neighborhood. Everywhere, everywhere, small buds are beginning to peak out, and ever so slowly, winter is letting go so that spring may bring life anew to the dormant trees and earth. Together, Annabelle and I tromped through our neighborhood, through puddles and mud too, to take notice of spring’s promise. Here is what we saw:
Daffodils in full bloom, shooting up out of no one’s garden but Mother Nature’s,
and dew droplets lining up along leaves.
Annabelle climbing a steep hill, back up from the woods and into the neighborhood
to take notice of colorful rocks, great for sitting on, climbing on, and being king or queen on,
and then, to look closely at tree branches, the ever so small buds promising a glorious spring,
and then stopping to praise these crocuses, tucked ever so quietly behind a tree.
Strolling around our neighborhood and tromping through the woods brings such quietness to me. Thank goodness that I am the mom to a little girl who likes to indulge in nature’s beauty too.
Are you strolling this weekend? If so, where did you go?
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These are wonderful photographs. Your season is a little ahead of mine. It is like a preview of what I will be seeing in a couple of weeks. I love the dew droplets on the (tulip?) leaves and your daughter in her pink raincoat. It brings back nature walks when my girls were small.
If you are not familiar with her already, check out the link for Sharon Lovejoy in my blogroll. Her books are a marvelous inspiration for sharing nature & gardening with children.
hi, one thing i truly miss about living in Costa Rica is missing spring and the changes of season. I have to say though,fall is my ultimate favorite and i try to visit every fall i can!
I’ve been a big fan of your blog and have incorporated a bunch of your tips. Finally got a blog up and have nominated your blog for an award!
Also put you on my blogroll so that I will keep coming back:)
Saucy Salsita, AKA
The Green, Sexy Expat – Greening it up in Costa Rica!
Jessica,
Thank you for sharing these gorgeous photos with us of your lovely spring and your even lovier Annabelle! Spring is such a promise of hope and joy, which I bet you’re especially feeling with the growing of another addition to your family!
I also love the new pix in your heading/banner!
Hugs,
Ruth
Aisling, I will have to check out Lovejoy and her nature and gardening tips for children. Thanks for the tip! Oh, and I wasn’t sure whether those were tulips or crocuses . . . that’s why I like to frequent master gardener sites, like yours, so that I can learn a bit more about dirt, growing, and the pretty and tasty things that a garden creates.
Saucy, I am so excited about your blog! Thank you again for nominating me for the Lemonade award! I will try to add it to my sidebar.
Ruth, thank you for your compliments on my photos. I really am trying to improve my eye and my web design skills (though I am such an amateur in both areas). Oh well, I like them both! Can’t wait to see what you’re strolling with this week too.
I love the daffodils. My grandmother has a ton of daffodils across the road from her house, nobody tends to them but the come back in abundance every year. I’m hoping to establish such a daffodil patch in my yard, but it will be a little while before I see yellow! For now I have to be satisfied with green.
i like seeing your pictures because you guys are already having spring. we just saw our first crocuses yesterday while we were out and about and i was thrilled! today it is 49 and gray though. sigh.
Thank you for the tour! You took some lovely photographs.
robin, yes, I think we have a 5 to 10 degree seasonal start compared with new england (where I grew up). I love it that our cold weather doesn’t last as long (compared to CT) but the heat and humidity in mid to late summer make up are sometimes unbearable. Oh well, we make the most of it by hanging in our basement, getting to the pool, and getting outside when the temps are cooler. I hope you’ll have warmer weather in this coming week, =).
sunnymama, thank you for the kind words about my photographs. It means so much to me because I really am putting in the effort to really think about my pictures.
Beautiful visions of early spring! Gorgeous photography.
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