The Color of Spring

I love color. For Mothers' Day my daughters, Laura and Ellen, gave me many colorful bouquets of flowers. Tradition now has us going to the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens each year. A wonderful day!

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Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold, her early leaf's a flower but only so an hour.- Robert Frost

Cherry blossoms get to me. One week per year the cherry blossoms bloom at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens and each of the nine years that I've lived in New York I miss them by a few days. I typically arrive at the garden, camera in hand, only to find pink remnants on grass and barren trees. This year, I planned and set a date to see them in person and not on the internet. And so, on an unseasonably hot afternoon with tourists as far as the eye could see, the cousins and I ventured to Flatbush Avenue and entered the gardens. The anticipation of the unexpected was palpable. We walked through the crowds and to the designated space and finally encountered three cherry blossom trees in full bloom. The children began to run and play while carefully avoiding the camera. There was laughter and then quiet - the kind of quiet that only seems to exist in a garden, despite the noise of humans. The sheer beauty of the afternoon was breathtaking. Even if only three trees were in bloom. And for that, I was grateful.

Wells of Spring

Our Visions word of the month was appropriately Spring. It is May after all. But the word “spring” has all kinds of connotations, from rising up suddenly to a spring in a step of a happy person. It can be a sudden release of something elastic, or even to spring someone out of jail (for those of us with devious friends).

My photos are of a never-ending spring – or hopefully never ending. Niagara Falls is testement to a long history on earth of geological changes, from glaciers during the ice age the most powerful waterfall in North America to power generators for our modern society. Beautiful, powerful, productive, Spring.

Dresses For Sale

Spring is sprung. The vendors are out selling their colorful wears. Stores on the street are the way to shop.