“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” — Percy Bysshe Shelley jumble of brambles safe haven as world turns warm just a hint of green * * * Scarlet Beauty ~ Cardinal brightens winter’s dreariness • Photo and “Climate Change” haiku by Mary O’Connor © 2022 Brighten Dreary Winter Days “Passing Shadows” ~ New … More Climate Change
In memoriam Vincent Martin March 19, 2021 Love and life paused the beat of their heart this spring day, closed their eyes, lay down their mortal limbs in rest. But it was spring—the season of emerging brightness and buttery blossoms alike, reminders that love and life will be seen again— found in space around us, … More Love and Life
“The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.” — Bill Veeck tiniest flowers enfold comatose earth in joy harbingers of spring * * * Tiny Crocuses ~ Small in size, large in affect • Photo by Bivenne Harvey Staiger • Haiku … More Awakening
“All the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.” — Leo Tolstoy life gives birth to spring little trace of winter stress just stretch marks of light * * * Opening to the Light • Haiku* and photo by Mary O’Connor © 2020 * Haiku: a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in … More Birth
“Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold On. Life will get warmer.” — Anita Krizzan “It’s exciting to see things coming up again, plants that you’ve had twenty or thirty years. It’s like seeing an old friend.” ― Tasha Tudor * * * Sign of Winter’s End ~ These snowdrops once came over by … More Rebirth
The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.” — Suzanne Collins * * * Dandelions photo by Mary O’Connor © 2016
bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow * * * Scilia peek through the snow in a greeting of blue. Photo by Ruth Reluga © 2016
“I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.” ― Ann Lamott * * * Pansies, photo by Mary O’Connor © 2013
“had never appeared so fantastically beautiful as it did this spring. I had an uncomfortable suspicion that Nature had come to reconquer the earth for herself.” ― Yukio Mishima * * * Photo credit: Jan Logozzo © 2014
The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.” ― Millard Kaufman A long time in coming, but worth the wait! * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2014
Life Is Full of Sweet Spots 