Jonquils in full bloom
Bend tender heads in sorrow.
Winter still holds on.
Yes I know it is April 25th. Yes the spring flowers are all popped through and the daffodils (jonquils) are in full bloom. Still we have more snow in the forecast tomorrow and Monday. The good news is it will not last.
THIS YEAR I AM GIVING MYSELF A CHALLENGE! ONE PHOTO EVERYDAY TAKEN FROM MY HOME. IF YOU WANT TO JOIN JUST TAKE A PHOTO IN OR AROUND YOUR HOME AND WRITE YOUR OWN BLOG AND POST THE LINK IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW IT.
This week THE DAILY POST HAS ASKED US TO SHOW THE WORLD WAKING UP.
Here are other posts to wake you up.
This week Cee has asked to show her our BUDDING talent in a photo. You can see exactly what that means by clicking the underlined link.
Here is mine Bud!
I have no white- dress-blue-satin-sashed girls for this challenge. What I do have is a ton of silvery white winter. With two more feet of the slivery white wintry stuff ready to dump on my head I am really looking forward to the melting into spring thing.
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This post was written in response to the Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: SPRING
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/spring-2/
I actually do feel pretty springish today. It’s not that the traditional things like daffodils or tulips are abounding anywhere (even the first dandelions haven’t budded yet) but this was us two short weeks ago.
So the fact that today my world looks like this
gives me hope that spring has finally arrived!
We lost an hour this weekend. Did you notice? I did!
Me facing the effects of spring ahead.
I started the weekend by meeting with one of my graduated interns (I have taken on at least one intern a year for the last seven years). He visited on Friday after his girlfriend(my current intern) ratted me out by telling him I haven’t been taking my days off. Truth be told who has time to take a day off when daylight savings time is almost over.
Evidently his visit effected me more deeply than I realized because on Saturday morning I woke up at 4 A.M. It made me feel like this.
But I did have to finish my sermon before choir practice. So I walked the dogs and then chopped at the keyboard until the sermon was finished.
By 8 I was at the church warming up. I’ve noticed that warm up has become more and more important as I age.
After three hours of singing I was off to the Special Touch Bowl-A -Thon.
Bowlers at Special Touch
We raised $4400.00 for people with disabilities to go to summer camp. We have another Bowl-a-thon scheduled next week and our hope is to clear $10,000.00.
After that I visited some friends for a fellowship gathering. The sunset was lovely.
At this point I was pretty tired. I was just sure I would sleep well. Four A.M. came and I was up (which was really three because we sprung ahead remember) once again. Sunday was two services…excellent services I might add but springing ahead has left me a bit unhinged.
So today I am taking my intern’s advice. It is almost eleven and I am still in my pajamas. I think I will watch TV and eat cookies. After all spring is here!
On my recent trip to The Netherlands, I had an opportunity to tour the world-famous Keukenhof Gardens and the surrounding fields of Lisse. Unfortunately like the rest of the world the gardens were about a month behind.
While I did get some beautiful shots indoors and even a few great shots of the outer gardens the tulip beds were nowhere near peak.
Still it is an interesting place and there was plenty to photograph; So I loaded up on photos. When I brought my stuff home I began to play with it a little. Here is what I like to call “Crazy Keukenhof”.
Lillie-Put 