Spring, my favorite time of year.

Is it just me or has this been the most spectacular spring we have had in a long while?  Yes, I’m sure that being housebound for six months (to avoid catching some horrible bug) due to a weakened immune system would make being able to get out and about a big deal for me.  But, even with taking all that into account it seems that all the colors are earlier and brighter this year.  I can’t recall when the roadsides have had so many shades of green as they do this year. And, blooms are busting out overnight in my neighborhood. Is it just me or is this spring ever so amazing?

Let me share a few of my spring photos with you: just click on one of the photos to enlarge it. All the others will be on the bottom of the page for you to click on.    

The crocuses beside my front door were blooming 

on Presidents day 02-20-2012.  

 Tulips and Pansies outside the cancer center the first week in March 

View from my kitchen window most of this month.  It is just now leafing out.   

 redbuds and bradford pear trees in front of the middle school

 More Bradford Pear trees 

 This plox is beside my front door and it was not there one
afternoon and ablaze the next morning.  

This Wisteria is covering the entire fence on a corner near me. In fact,it is even growing up into the trees and hanging from the branches. While I was taking the photos the owner came out to chat.  He told me that he planted it when he moved into the house more then ten years ago and this is the first time it has bloomed like this. It usually only gets about half way down the fence before it fades away.    

 I have several dozen more photos I could share, but,  I will stop with just one more.  This lilic bush is in my neighbor's yard.  Lilac's are my favorite spring bloom and I have been photographing this one since I moved to town many years ago.  Normally, due to its size, only the top one third of the bush will bloom.  This is the first spring were the entire bush bloomed.  

Has spring in your neighborhood been as amazing as mine? 

 Spring my favorite time of year, you can't help but love it.  

Linking this post to Seasonal Sunday. 

Leave it to Mother Nature

It seems the older I get the less I'm surprised by what happens in my world. But, this year's weather has certainly been an exception to that rule.

One week ago I posted the following photo, just minutes out of my camera, on a post that can be found here.

Less than twenty-four hours later, I stepped outside my door to the sound of melting snow dripping in rain gutters and pouring through the downspouts of the homes on my block. There were large patches of green showing where the sun hit the ground.

Almost as if overnight trees began budding, Daffodils and Crocuses popped up. Today, on a trip into the city, I was delighted to see areas where Weeping Willows had leafed into a bright chartreuse against the dark bark of the bare trees behind them.

Flowering shrubs with varying amounts of blooms were scattered along the roadsides and neighborhoods I passed through.

Leave it to Mother Nature and the Good Lord to surprise and amaze me every time.

Pink Saturday ----- Easter Giveaway

Welcome everyone to this week's edition of Pink Saturday, hosted by Beverly at How Sweet the Sound. Beverly gave us the option, this week, of posting either something in Easter yellow or doing our regular pink. I was going to go with my regular pink, than suddenly there it was, the perfect Easter yellow.


During my rounds of the local resale shops, this week, I spotted this yellow rabbit cookie jar and fell in love with it. I actually made several trips to the shop and talked myself out of buying it each time. The last trip I had my thirteen year old grandson with me and he disliked the Bunny. Something about the eyes turned him off. Sinister is the word I believe he used to describe it.

But, I loved the that it had been hand made by someone in a ceramics class. In fact, there is a woman's name in gold script on the front. It reads Gloria Williams, 12-04-50. Can you believe this gem is almost sixty years old. Plus, I found it very sad that there was no one left from this ladies family that wanted to keep such a wonderful heirloom in the family.

Now how can you have pink Saturday without something pink. So, here is a collage of photos I took this week of some of the beautiful pink trees in town. What better way to honor Easter and spring.



Do you remember this lovely coach? I included this photo in a PS post about a month ago that featured some of my many thrift store finds. So many of you expressed an interest in this little gem and stated that you would have purchased it had you been there. Someone even referred to it as a "Cinderella Coach."

Well, I happen to revisit that shop this week and not only was the coach still there, it had been moved into the bargain room. So I purchased it and will be giving it to one lucky commenter this week. You will not have to sign up to follow my blog, or jump through any of those other hoops that I have seen on other blog sites doing a giveaway. All you have to do is leave a comment here this week and let me know that you would like to give this jewel a new home. I will place all the names in the proverbial hat and draw a winner next Friday and post it in my PS post next week. Congratulations to each of you.

I wish you all a happy Easter.

To join in the fun or just visit the pink post of others visit Beverly and her friends at Pink Saturday.