Spring
☼ Pictures from my spring garden (and bunny!), although we have leap-frogged into summer. The iris and azalea I shared last spring are not out yet ▶ http://goo.gl/sMmFU
“Now that the winter’s gone, the earth hath lost
Her snow-white robes, and now no more the frost
Candies the grass, or casts an icy cream
Upon the silver lake or crystal stream;
But the warm sun thaws the benumbed earth,
And makes it tender; gives a sacred birth
To the dead swallow; wakes in hollow tree
The drowsy cuckoo and the humble-bee.
Now do a choir of chirping minstrels bring
In triumph to the world the youthful spring.
The valleys, hills, and woods in rich array
Welcome the coming of the long’d-for May”.
– George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
madame scientist's not-so-mad musings 
The magnolia buds are just starting to show a sign of opening here. Great to see your garden in full swing! Enjoy! 🙂
Thanks, fiona munday . Spring has finally sprung!
A fine selection, both of words and images, Rajini Rao. Thanks for sharing them with us.
very nice
you see the spring, you feel the spring… Lovely flowers and nice poem too!
“But the warm sun thaws the benumbed earth,
And makes it tender; gives a sacred birth
To the dead swallow; wakes in hollow tree
The drowsy cuckoo and the humble-bee.”
That is so deep, sophisticated… I don’t feel very familiar with the vocabularies of the poem, but they are so nicely used!
Byron seemed fitting messenger for my grateful welcome of a new season. At long last. Shaker Cherukuri , the bunny seemed unafraid of me. I need to be a bit more stern with him or he’s going to go for my soon-to-grow vegetable garden.
Thanks, Léa Jay . I think you will enjoy Byron’s poems 🙂
Noted 🙂
Why does the poem make me think of the song “Hallelujah” much?! :))
It does, Léa Jay ? Perhaps the song is like a crescendo of good things, just like spring 🙂
Nice flavor yr…
Beautiful!
A freak MN snowstorm has me longing for the beauty that is spring. Thanks for posting. How I miss the bunnies that used to be in my yard around this time in south central Illinois.
The bunnies always turn up just in time to nibble your spring garden, Chryle Elieff 🙂
Here’s a little STEM puzzle for some people: Who was Byron’s only legitimate child?: http://goo.gl/tRURM
Now that I knew, Kevin Clift 🙂
I thought you would Rajini Rao but perhaps this will be a surprise for some of your readers (-;.
That’s why I didn’t give the answer away! 🙂
Thank you!
Thanks, Aida. I’m so ready for flowers.
Very Nice Pictures
Ver nice ! wish I could smell it. 🙂
Beautiful flowers Rajini Rao. Sometimes I wish there were seasons in Sri Lanka. Spring is so full of promise, a new beginning..
Long ago during my student days in Leeds I was walking in the rain,one Winter, with a British friend. I was telling her we never had such miserable cold weather in my country, that except for the monsoons the weather was more or less the same. And she said ‘it must be so boring for you’! I thought about it, it’s so true, I never realised!
I love this flower pics…. They are eye soothing…..especially the white flower pic 🙂
NAIC
Aaaw lovely Rajini Rao !!!
They say we’ll get springweather next week over here … ^^
Have a wonderful weekend my friend !!!
nice
nice one —i too wrote a welcome song about may
On A May Glory———A Welcome Song
O’ sprite full Maia,come attire our lands with your boundless prize,
Of joyful swelling by the natures pleasing bloom,and green surprise;
To sprout a floral bedding round the yards and shades for worthy dales
For birds to spin their adorned bowers over the dewy boughs and vales.
Hail! to you goddess–deck the forest’s lingering beauty,thus come
Let streams do flow across the thick and bushy meadows over your prime,
For hawthorn white and lilies to bud,and converse fragrance in air,
To wind down our minds with breezes blow,groovy lift’s cools us lighter.
Mid mate of month,come and show your primeval splendor and glee-
While south is praising vintage’rs autumn, north’s propitious spring do fly
And make the country lush with garden fruits, more sweetest scent’s they spray
To Fill each rose with flavors long, for all the ardent grooms they pray
Come Glitter, glitter lusty rays,and sun is warm in moderate mood.
Behold! the coming of her’s, bees gathered among the newly buds.
Nithin Purple
That’s lovely, thank you for sharing Nithin purple .
thats holi
celebration of color and of course spring here
welcome;;;;;;;
Very springy!
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hi friends so nice buty
Chala bagundhi..
Nice
Hi. Very beautiful flowers. Nice collection.
Aah. Speechless. Which is rare 🙂
Nooo, John Kellden , that would be too bad! 😛
Hi rajini rao liked ur collection of flowers
Thanks, ajay sawant .
Thnks to you. U first time tlkd with me.
Haha, looking forward to seeing your pictures, Thex Dar . I am pleasantly (?) sore from all the weeding of my vegetable beds. Happy Spring!
so beautiful !!!
Hi rajini rao
Awesome collection with great color, composition and (for the most part) depth of field Rajini Rao 🙂
This is lovely!
Thanks! Hope spring has sprung in your neck of the woods 🙂
As a matter of fact the hyacinths are already out!
It’s been a long winter and spring has been cooler than usual here. Azaleas are just starting to bloom and the days are getting longer, so there are good times ahead 🙂
How have you been Rajini ?
Thawing out in the spring sunshine, Guitar Dave 🙂 You?
I need to plus this post again. +1
Hope you are enjoying spring 🙂
I am! 🙂
Beautiful poem , we are thawing out here also . The birds have returned and you get to hear their songs in the morning it is so nice .
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