Spring

Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia in Bloom

Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia in Bloom. Trees are budding, flowers are awakening from underground slumber, sunshine beckons those outdoors to sit and revel in the beauty of Spring. A picnic lunch from The Cheese Shop provides mile high sandwiches, loaded with quality ingredients, on freshly baked breads for dining al fresco. Well done, Colonial Williamsburg!

The Allure of Poppies

“And now, my beauties, something with poison in it, I think. With poison in it, but attractive to the eye, and soothing to the smell. Poppies…Poppies. Poppies will put them to sleep. Sleeeep. Now they’ll sleeeep!”

– Wicked Witch of the West, Wizard of Oz. 

Lilacs Outside My Window 

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
by Walt Whitman

“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, 
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, 
I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. 

Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,
Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,
And thought of him I love.”

A Yellow Tulip Smile 

The Tulip Bed

“The May sun—whom
all things imitate—
that glues small leaves to
the wooden trees
shone from the sky
through blue gauze clouds
upon the ground. 
Under the leafy trees
where the suburban streets
lay crossed,
with houses on each corner,
tangled shadows had begun
to join
the roadway and the lawns. 
With excellent precision
the tulip bed
inside the iron fence
upreared its gaudy
yellow, white, and red,
rimmed round with grass,
reposedly.”
~ William Carlos Williams