flowersandstripes

May started with glorious blue skies, blossom appearing on the apple tree in our garden, green shoots appearing everywhere, wearing shoes wi...

Let's daydream a little... 'When the first days of April come, something steals into the air and touches you upon the cheek, and t...

'...she roamed zigzag across the garden, and getting out again through a gap, found herself facing the sealike uplands. Step quickening,...

The herald of spring is wonderful in so many countries. Reading these spring thoughts in Australia, could be spring thoughts in many other c...

There are a few precious puffs of blossoms left on the trees and so one last blossom quote now all the fingers of this tree (darling) hav...

A Hosepipe ban has been called and the heavens have opened with more than just April Showers. Maybe the weather will read this passage and b...

I'm still in the wonder of blossom. 'As she stood up to go she looked out at the stretch of garden behind the cottage. The newly t...

I've just finished reading Penelope Fitzgerald's The beginning of spring. As hoped there was a spring quote. "the first sign ...

Now to America and as it's the month of March it had to be from the March family. 'As spring came on, a new set of amusements beca...

Rachel a t Booksnob   hosted a gentle re read of Sense &Sensibility. I re read it recently for book club so it wasn't the right time...

I've found another blossom quote! 'A kind of brilliant green film suddenly broke over the hills - orchids, spiking the dust, rocks c...

Elizabeth and her German Garden begins on the 7th May and within this day we have this quote. No wonder I have so many quotes from this book...

Darling , Dearest Granny died today. 'In these hours when the silence, unfilled by any ceremony, was made almost tangibly oppressive by ...

The blossom is still just hanging in there and Love in the time of cholera is still in my mind... '...he saw her transfigured in the aft...

The blossom trees are truly blossoming... 'There was a smell of all the flowers at once, as if the earth had been unconscious all day lo...

So the blossom has finally arrived and I can post this. I've been waiting. I think you've been waiting too. 'every tree appeare...