First the crocuses, bursting blue and purple, then the yellow of daffodils, now the blaze of tulips pushing forward to the front of the line, boisterous school children lined up for recess, struggling to wait their turn, antsy, unruly, yet held to the rules, holding, each in its turn, colors and shapes harmonizing, each stem […]
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This Spring
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Existential, Flowers, Healing, Seasons on February 25, 2015 | 2 Comments »
Hot Flashes
Posted in Fantasies, Flowers, Lilies, Marriage, Midlife on August 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A while back I was strolling through a community garden, and came across a blaze of color. First I registered the deep pink, almost with hints of red in it, then the shape. They looked like calla lilies (I don’t know tons of flowers, but calla lilies are so unique I can actually remember them). […]
Wintry Thoughts of . . . Tulips
Posted in Family, Flowers, Legacies, Natural World, Seasons, Tulips on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Although it’s January, and should be too early for thoughts to turn to spring, my eyes caught sight of a planter, rather desolate in location (back stairs to an office building, concrete steps, leading out to a grocery-store/Starbucks style alleyway), with a nondescript tree, and, at its base, small green shoots poking out of the […]