Skip to main content

Spring

There is a reason we call it mud season.

The middle of the road is muddy,

but the thawing releases its own sweet scent.

the sun is shining & warm,

the sky is blue,

a rushing stream washes the air.

I am grateful for this day.


Comments

  1. Arkansas PattiApril 12, 2014 at 5:34 PM

    A Florida friend of mine had a daughter living in Vt. My friend spent one winter there and said she could take the snow, not the mud. Hope you dry out soon.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Sally WesselyApril 12, 2014 at 6:41 PM

    It sounds like you are happy to back among the sights, and smells of home. My friend in VT often shows me photos of her road when we talk via FaceTime. It goes with the territory. You live in such a beautiful area.

    ReplyDelete
  3. SakuApril 12, 2014 at 8:35 PM

    I love the smell of spring! It's that final release of winter and thankfully the mud doesn't last. Thanks for sharing the photos - they're lovely!

    ReplyDelete
  4. TomApril 12, 2014 at 8:56 PM

    see ... it's not so bad in the north!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Linda ReederApril 13, 2014 at 1:36 AM

    I visited Vermont in late May. No mud, all beauty.
    So glad to hear that you are finding pleasure in your surroundings as spring slowly arrives.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. OlgaApril 13, 2014 at 9:20 AM

      There is definitely a big contrast between spring in your part of the country and spring in mine, but it is all good if you look for it.

      Delete
  6. AnonymousApril 13, 2014 at 7:55 AM

    How different Vermont is from Florida -- and from Hawaii, too. It's still chilly here to make me don a sweater.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Jenn JilksApril 13, 2014 at 10:18 AM

    Wonderful, positive thoughts!
    We've got flooding in the region. Fortunately, our home is high and dry...
    (ツ) from Cottage Country Ontario , ON, Canada!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Linda MyersApril 14, 2014 at 2:25 AM

    The longer light of days makes surroundings beautiful.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. OlgaApril 14, 2014 at 10:23 AM

      It is definitely the darkness that I need to escape more than the cold--not that I am all that fond of extremely cold weather and piles of snow.

      Delete
  9. Jenn JilksApril 18, 2014 at 8:45 AM

    The flooding has been terrible around here. I'm glad I'm high and dry! You, too!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

I appreciate readers' comments so much. You don't even always have to agree with me.

Popular posts from this blog

It's TIme

 It's been a while since I have posted anything and even my reading your posts is falling by the wayside. I am in Florida now. I have a yard where little attention was spent on landscaping for the past years so I am slowly and (somewhat) methodically addressing that. I also volunteer to work at the pollinator garden and the edible garden I helped install at the UU grounds and I took over the volunteer job of cleaning out the overgrown community garden by my neighborhood mailboxes. The neighbor who was doing that got sick and could no longer attend to it. It's a bigger job than I'd thought at first -- not only overgrown with weeds, but the plants that are wanted there are in life and death competition for each others' spaces. And two walks a day, morning and evening, so Levi can keep up with addiction to canine social media and a daily rousing came of stick or ball midday take up another chunk of my time. I have a weekly meditation group that I co-facilitate, and my own ...
10 comments
Read more

Life Goes On

There is nothing like a visit from the grand children to remind one that life goes on.  I spent Friday night at my daughter's and then brought the kids back home with me.  I did not get to see so much of them this past summer and it was a birthday gift to my daughter (who just turned 40!) to have a couple of days to herself. She probably spent them in her son's room playing Lego StarWars.  Dane tried to teach me how to play this video game--a hopeless task if ever there was one.  "Concentrate, Grandma!  You have to concentrate!"  I do have a hard time with sustained concentration lately, but in this case I had no clue what it was that needed concentration.  He finally took the controls away from me (thank-you!). It's amazing how long he can amuse himself at my house being out side on a scooter or helping me in the yard, especially if it involves a hose.  Inside, they both sit and draw or craft for hours.  Just before bed, Dane did say, "N...
41 comments
Read more

Eggplant

Mike and I considered ourselves soul mates, but we definitely were not culinary mates.  Mike liked what he liked and disliked what he disliked and he never changed his mind about things like that.  He did not eat mayonnaise.  He did not eat tomato sauce.  He did not eat cooked vegetables except for corn, peas and green beans.  He did not eat onions cooked or otherwise.  He did not eat casseroles ever since they were a combination of things he didn't eat anyway. I did not like mushrooms as a kid and eggplant just made me gag, but my tastes changed,  Foods I found disgusting as a child are now among my favorites--mushrooms, eggplant, avocados, asparagus, eggs, spinach, brussel sprouts, herbs and spices. I will admit that I never developed a taste for liver (nor do I want to). I made this Moussakka a while ago and ate it every day for a week.  I froze half of it but ended up thawing it out right away. It consists of sliced eggplant layered...
31 comments
Read more