First Garden Day

Today was our first real day in the garden this season!

It was lovely, there were bees and sunbathing ladybugs and although the garden looks quite shabby this time of year, the sun gave everything a magical glow.

March

Harshness vanished. A sudden softness

has replaced the meadows' wintry grey.

 Little rivulets of water

changed their singing accents. Tendernesses,

hesitantly, reach toward the earth

from space, and country lanes are showing

these unexpected subtle risings

that find expression in the empty trees.

 ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Early Spring