Do You Believe?

It's true,

what they say...

People who don't believe in fairies will never find them.

Here's your chance.

Look closely at the photo above.

Can you spot it?

Most of us will see this,

truly magical in every way,

Maple seeds ready to unfurl their soft green wings.

But,

for those who hold magic deep in their hearts,

who continue to light the spark

that turns the

Ordinary

 into the

Extraordinary

You will see
Maple Forest Fairies

rising from the forest floor,
wearing long, golden caps.

Where there's one,

there's many more.

Let's join them

as they laugh and dance and sing,

for they know

it's time

to celebrate

Spring!

Paint The Town Red

Walking through my garden daily now, checking to see what's coming up.

I've noticed that many of my spring shoots are red.

Above and below are Bleeding Hearts

they are about six inches high right now.

Here's one just on its way out of the ground.

I think this silly shoot finds it too cold

and is heading back inside last year's stem.

This is a tulip plant, the flower will be white,

still, love the red tips.

This is a lilium

coming up so beautifully.

Another lilium, not so lucky,

already eaten and it's barely out of the ground.

Funny, the Red Lily Leaf Beetle that's eating it

- is also red.

Here's another tulip

with such bright red tips

I can spot them from across the garden.

A clematis leaf bud

A hosta leaf

And finally,

a leaf so red

it's hard to believe

in no time it will be a deep dark green.

A peony bush!

This one is feeling shy

But there is no hiding

this kind of 

Paint-the-town red!

Cat TV

It's cold and windy today.

My cats are taking full advantage of the sun shining in through the window.

Zorro (on the left) is a tuxedo cat,

Sushi (on the right) is a Siamese.

They have been indoor cats all their lives.

I'm happy being able to keep them healthy and safe

while protecting the many birds that visit our backyard feeders at the same time.

I stepped outside to take this shot from the other side of our very dirty window.

Clearly I have not started my spring cleaning yet...

This is how they spend their day:

Watching Cat TV (that is: looking out the windows),

meowing, eating, sleeping.

We interrupt the above with:

Playing, brushing, petting, cuddling and (sometimes) shouting at them.

Unwrapping Spring

I don't know about you

But when I unwrap

the burlap

from around my plants

in the Spring

It's like opening presents on

Christmas Day

I'm

Curious

Excited

(and often)

Surprised

By what I find inside :)

Pink Charming

You know how it is when time flies by,

you're working on this and that,

you look up and it's

four o'clock in the afternoon.

I thought I'd missed the day.

Then a sunbeam came through the window

illuminating this geranium bouquet
on my kitchen counter.

It blew me away

with its pink charming-ness.

Its stem, a lime-green straw in a raspberry soda

Strawberries and cream

Love the fuzzy hairs shooting out in all directions

And this multi-layered taffetta skirt

Pure Innocence

Dreaminess

and Sweet Perfection

I'm going to take a four o'clock

 sunbeam/flower break

more often :)

Life in a Raindrop

Peeping through my spyglass

I head out in the rain

in search of

New Worlds

I find a whole galaxy of watery planets!

Ethereal, transluscent

hanging by

a silvery

thread

Twin planets

feed each other

on a black, metallic

bed

Ghostly grey,

a portent world

so dark 

I'm filled with

dread

Blue-eyed

water world

you'd think it would be

Red

These

crystal balls and prisms

assure me

winter's

fled

But best of all

are raindrop worlds

that tell me

spring's

ahead

Ice-Tipped Wings

The day is cold and grey.

In the sky,

Playing with the currents of air

Like an untethered kite,

This seagull soars above it all...

Until it spots something more attractive than flying:

Potential food!

It stands by this hole in the ice

ready to pounce should

something swim by

or jump out.

After five LONG minutes of waiting

It throws back its head

and lets loose a wailful cry,

Followed by a disgruntled stomp

to a new location.

With each step, its feet sink deeper into the icy slush.

It stares out morosely at the cold dark water.

"Oh, if only I wasn't trapped here

in this hellish land of ice and snow!" it complains.

And then it remembers its wings!

Lucky bird :)

All that to say: Fresh snow and ice pellets arrived in Montreal today.

Where are my wings!