“Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit…” – Henry David Thoreau

“Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.”
– Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Silent Noon

 “What wondrous life is this I lead!
Ripe apples drop about my head;
The luscious clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.”
– Andrew Marvell, Thoughts in a Garden

 “In summer, the song sings itself.”
– William Carlos Williams

 “Snails don’t walk.
They slither and slide
Along wet pathways
Gleam and glide,
Squeezed between
The grasses green,
Polished houses shell-like gleam.”
– Theresa Heine

 “The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter–it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
– Mark Twain…Letter to George Bainton, 10/15/1888

“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains…”
– Diane Ackerman

 “The flowers are nature’s jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.”
– George Croly

 “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

 “All that we are is a result of what we have thought” – Buddha

 “A long life isn’t good enough, but a good life is long enough.” – Elvis Presley

“Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
But they don’t get around
Like the dandelions do.”
– Slim Acres

 “Tell you what I like the best —
‘Long about knee-deep in June,
‘Bout the time strawberries melts
On the vine, — some afternoon
Like to jes’ git out and rest,
And not work at nothin’ else!”
– James Witcomb Riley, Knee Deep in June

 “There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.”
– Charles Morgan

 “In a bowl to sea went wise men three,
On a brilliant night of June:
They carried a net, and their hearts were set
On fishing up the moon.”
– Thomas Love Peacock

 “A summer’s sun is worth the having.”
– French Proverb

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. – Tennessee Williams

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”  – John Keats

I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Afternoon on a Hill”

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. – Ikkyu Sojun

The fountain is my speech.  The tulips are my speech.  The grass and trees are my speech.  – George Delacorte

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know.  I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I’m good.  There is not hope for that –one is sure to get into some mess before evening. – John Keats

Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!”
~Robin Williams

It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
~Mark Twain

The naked earth is warm with Spring,
And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun’s kiss glorying,
And quivers in the sunny breeze.
~Julian Grenfell

For the first time this Spring,
I breathe in the freshly cut grass
Oh, it takes me home…
~ D.C. 4/8/11

 “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough.”
– A. E. Houseman, Shropshire Lad

 “Today is the day when bold kites fly,
When cumulus clouds roar across the sky.
When robins return, when children cheer,
When light rain beckons spring to appear.

Today is the day when daffodils bloom,
Which children pick to fill the room,
Today is the day when grasses green,
When leaves burst forth for spring to be seen.”
– Robert McCracken, Spring

Today I saw my first crocus of the season…. –  D. C.  3/12/11

“I stood beside a hill
Smooth with new-laid snow,
A single star looked out
From the cold evening glow.
There was not other creature
That saw what I could see,
I stood and watched the evening star
As long as it watched me.” 
–   Sara Teasdale, February Twilight

Rain or Shine … Be My Valentine
Raindrops on our dresses,
Sunshine on our face,
No matter what the weather,
The look of love won’t be replaced.

The silent sound as rain falls,
The brilliance of the sun.
They only promise radiance,
Caused by either one.

Let it rain, or let it shine,
It won’t matter none.
You’re such a lovely Valentine,
In either rain, or sun.

Let it snow, let it hail,
Earth blanketed with white.
It won’t prevent our day,
Or deny the magic of our night.
– Donna Wallace

“February makes a bridge and March breaks it.”
–  George Hebert

“The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.”
–   William C. Bryant

“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
–   Japanese proverb

“The twelve months…
Snowy, Flowy, Blowy,
Showery, Flowery, Bowery,
Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy,
Breeze, Sneezy, Freezy.”
–   George Ellis

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850

“Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.” 
–   Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. -Charles Lamb