Winter Into Spring

Finally! It's feeling like spring...and even looking like spring if I look around beyond my shady, non-flowering yard. I was so happy to capture some shots of spring flowers in my community while running errands yesterday. I kept pulling over at odd places to take photos of any little flower I could find. I love that in most of the photos, the backdrop to the colorful flowers is still the winter landscape hanging on so stubbornly. It won't be long! Winter into spring...my most favorite time of year. Thank you for stopping by, and I'm also sharing a poem I wrote about this change of seasons...I wrote it several years back, but it's always been one of my favorites. Have a lovely Tuesday!

I'm linking up with Kim's Texture Tuesday - my first photo above was enhanced using Kim's "Sybil" texture which I can't stop using because it's simply perfect. I used it at Multiply/30%. I also put the image through Radlab to tweek it a bit.

WINTER INTO SPRING

Winter wanders gamely,
A drifter passing through, and
Tips his hat to snowcapped oaks
Festooned with icy swags
And filigrees.

He tosses frosty winds
Down slanted, porcelain hills,
Tingeing creeks to glinty silver
And jostling sleepy blue gills
From their dreams.

Spring, she stirs and wakens,
Bright and rosy cheeked,
While musty earth roots rustle
And fawns, with dappled down,
Sprout tenderlings.

Strawberries lie ripe in wait
For fledgling feathered wings, and
April warms them like a breath
While winter, ever wandering,
Takes his leave.

Tender budded larkspurs
Reach for hungry honey bees,
And cherry blossoms flush soft pink
When morning showers sing
Their harmonies.

© Sherri Brannon