So Long, May...

The month of May wears a green skirt

And holds her lap of flowers,

Then skipping lightly on her way

Leaves warm and sunny hours.

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She dresses woods and vales in green,
Throws daisies on the hill,
Then treading softly in the glade
She dissipates the chill.

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And alder tree lets down her hair
Reflected in the pool;
The mountain paths wear silver veils
When early morns are cool.

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We've longed for Spring: now she has come

With warmth and laughter gay,

To wake the world and bless the earth

This flowery month of May!

~Stella Craft Tremble

Spring Illumination

Spring...

Sound the Flute! 

Now it's mute.

Birds delight

Day and Night.

Nightingale

In the dale

lark in Sky

Merrily

Merrily Merrily to welcome in the Year

Little Boy

                  Full of joy. ~William Blake

There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature. ~Claude Debussy

When I admire the wonders of a sunset
or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. ~Mahatma Gandhi

A beautiful sunset that
was mistaken for a dawn. ~Claude Debussy

There's never one sunrise the same
or one sunset the same. ~Carlos Santana

Garden Aria

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song. ~Lou Holtz

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and  yet sings, knowing she hath wings. ~Victor Hugo

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. ~E.E. Cummings

Each bird must sing with his own throat. ~Henrik Ibsen

 

Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: "We got through another night!" ~Enid Bagnold

Shimmer Wings

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever
walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return. ~Leonardo Da Vinci

Given angel's wings, where might you fly?

In what sweet heaven might you find your love?

Unwilling to be bound, where might you move,

Lost between the wonder and the why?...

~Nicolas Gordon

I pick the prettiest part of the sky
and I melt into the wing and then into the air,
till I'm just soul on a sunbeam. ~Richard Bach

My soul is in the sky. ~William Shakespeare

Garden Flight

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?
It is the same the angels breathe. ~Mark Twain

The butterfly is a flying flower... ~Ponce Denis Ecouchard Lebrun

Flying without feathers is not easy;
my wings have no feathers. ~Titus Maccius Plautus

Angels can fly because they carry
no burdens. ~Eileen Elias Freeman

A Mother's Garden

A mother is a gardener of God,
tending to the hearts of her children.
Her seeds are God's truth,
her hoe is discipline, 
her watering can is grace,
and her sunshine is love.
~Roy Lessin

...God's love has been poured out in our hearts 

through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. ~Romans 5:5

Children will always remain in a mother's heart, 

no matter how big they become 
or how far away they move. ~Roy Lessin

Teach me Your way, Lord,

and I will live by Your truth.

Give me an undivided mind

to fear Your name.

~Psalm 86:11

Happy Mother's Day!

A Mother's Teaching

All that I am or hope to be, 

I owe to my mother. 

~Abraham Lincoln

A mother's teaching 

impacts a child's mind,

influences a child's choices,

motivates a child's direction,

inspires a child's faith,

shapes a child's will,

and enlightens a child's heart.

~Roy Lessin

  

I will instruct you and show you the way to go;

with My eye on you, I will give you counsel.

~Psalm 32:8

With heart and voice,

With hands and face,

No one can take a mother's place.

~Roy Lessin