A Green Theme

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal

“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.” (Pedro Calderon de la Barca) What’s your favorite color in the springtime? We have so many choices. The bright yellow of the forsythia that shout spring is really here, the rosy red of the redbud tree that pushes out blooms to light up the woods, …

Imagining Life’s Coming Attractions

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In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. (Robert Frost)  I love spring. A time when the spring peepers make music so loud that even with the windows closed I can hear them trying to convince some other peepers to be their dates. I like how one week the trees are winter bare …

No Mystery about Spring, Tortoises and Winners

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Spring is Springing!  You may still be seeing snow out your window, but if so, just turn your eyes to the calendar instead. It says right on there that March 20 is spring!! And I’m ready to believe it even if winter isn’t. As Doug Larson says in this quote, “Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a …

Mystery Photos in Spring

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 “Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” (Neil Armstrong) Do you like mysteries? I like reading them. Not sure I’d actually want to be involved with one although when I was a kid I imagined being like the Hardy Boys and solving all sort of mysteries. Now I’m happy when I can solve the …

The Mysteries of Spring

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I had fun with my last mystery picture that wasn’t much of a mystery for some of you. So how about this one? Got a guess before you read on?  While you’re thinking about it, let’s talk about Spring. Here in Kentucky it was so cool in March that spring tarried and dragged its feet, but then April came along …

Right Now – Spring!

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“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” ~~Henri Matisse Spring – what a beautiful time of the year when hope takes wing and we simply know that something good is going to happen. Actually, official spring is about a week away, but the sun has decided on pushing spring toward us a little earlier this year …