Spring Dreaming

I'm dreaming of spring, the best time of the year. It's almost here, though it's freezing outside right now.



The Lord has given us a beautiful gift in spring. All the plants poking little green heads up, brand new fluffy ducklings around the parks, little mini turtles, bare feet, spring planting, Oh how I love to dirty my hands in my first planting of the year. So many years I just couldn't wait til our last frost had passed so I could start the garden.


Dandelions! I love dandelions, I have so many fond memories of childhood connected with them, flower chain crowns and necklaces, decor for braids and mud pies. Of course I shouldn't leave out Crow Poison, they were a big part of flower crowns too.


Spring memories wouldn't be complete with out mentioning Chickweed, As a child I'd spend hours just popping the seed pockets of chickweed (it's edible too, and good for you).


Tadpoles! aren't they the coolest, cutest little things and the most fun a kid can have! Baby lizards too they are really really cute:)


Our beautiful Texas flowers Bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrush will be out in spring too, one of the biggest reasons for spring being the best season.



Oh and to finally have warm hands:) I'm not for all this cold weather.

The Green of Spring

~Marci~



Spring, the sweet spring, is the year’s pleasant king,
Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,
Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing:
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!

The palm and may make country houses gay,

Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day,

And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay:

Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!

The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,

Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit,

In every street these tunes our ears do greet:

Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to witta-woo!

~Thomas Nashe~


"Garden Friends" coming next

Happy Valentine's Day

Adventures in Friendly Club Forrest

A Jungle Window
Don't you just love this bridge?

Look before you step. What do you see??

I didn't see him and almost stepped on him before my brother stopped me.

Of course I had to stop and take pictures of flowers along the way:)

Deep in the (the hundred acre woods... ah childhood memories:) woods we found a little dam,

And on it we found this plack(sp?). Awesome huh, 1944!! World War II was still on. If anyone knows what the Friendly Club is let me know.

A giant pecan downed by hurricane Ike. Most of these picture look better bigger.

Same Pecan.

The depths of the woods. When you're there it takes you back to a different time. There's nothing but God's creation so it could be any era. This swampy looking place makes me think of the days of the underground railroad.

Suns coming down...

the end to a perfect day:)

Marci