Relax and Appreciate

Spring fever this week, and my blog keeps asking for flower pictures. Reflect on the joy and beauty. Cogitate and churn words into a poetry waterfall. Or just sit and dream.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure, nor this thing not that, but simply growth - W.B.Yeats

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual - Oscar Wilde

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning ... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be - Joseph Campbell

Realize deeply that the present moment is all that you have - Eckhart Tolle

Worth Sneezing

Earth laughs in flowers - Ralph Waldo Emerson

That time of year again. Spring at the Dallas Arboretum. Color pops at every corner.

The Amen of Nature is always a flower - Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The new Maple Rill at the arboretum is stunning. Despite the cloudy day, the beauty was in the details.

'Tis my faith that every flower

Enjoys the air it breathes - William Wordsworth

Aachoo! I feel a haiku coming on -

mustard yellow dust
fine icing awakens spring
between loud sneezes

I wasn't going to write a thing.........

A friend, Linda T., and I succumbed to the beauty of the Dallas Arboretum. It was a tad gray outside, but it wasn't windy. Hence, tulips were not flying off the stems as we strolled the property. Glorious color, fabulous fields of 450,000 bulbs. These folks are insane in their plantings. It is poetry.

So, I wasn't going to write a thing......but here's a haiku I wrote a few weeks ago. Must share with the world.

fleeting harsh march winds
morose keen and winter pale
single yellow tulip