Slow Down

I'm sure I say the same thing from year to year, but something seems so different about this Spring.  Perhaps it's the unusually warm weather. It's like we hit the fast forward button (that made me think of a vhs for some reason) and we're moving too quickly to enjoy the subtleties of the season.

It isn't Spring until my mom asks for the third time in a week, "Did I tell you that my crocuses are already blooming?".  This year she has already picked dozens of daffodils and her weeping cherry tree is in full bloom. Thanks to Skype I can actually enjoy them with her. 

Did you have a chance to walk through the muddy park in your rain boots? There are so many cute rain boots out there I can hardly stand it. But, how many pairs could one actually own? (That's a rhetorical question if my husband is reading this...)  I can't go from winter boots to flip-flops...I can't. You wouldn't want me to.  First things first...I need a pedicure. Yes, need far surpasses want at this point. Next, legs.... white... frightening.  One word...self-tanner. Wait that's technically two.  You see it's all too fast I can't even think straight.

All this pampering talk...now I've gone off track.  All I was trying to say is... I need a pause button.

I love the details of Spring and I don't want to miss them. 

Next thing you know people will be complaining about the heat. Then the cold. Then the heat. I want to get off the weather-coaster and enjoy each and every mud puddle, rain drop, budding flower, chirping bird and all the fashion that makes Spring so special. 

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For some of you SPRING is in the air...

 The birds are out...

 singing a lovely song...

 and doing a little happy dance.

With fresh snow falling, I can only imagine the warmth and ease of each step that a spring day brings. 

Thanks to Kathleen Young, a talented blogger and photographer, at 

Chronicles of a County Girl, I'm able to capture a bit of what is to come. 

How are you enjoying today?

Photo 1.2.and 3 Kathleen Young.Photo 4 is from WeHeartIt.

As the snow continues to fall..... imagination is a beautiful thing!

 “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” 

― Albert Einstein

I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like

~ Queen Bicycle Race, Fat Bottomed Girls

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammelled womanhood. ~ Susan B. Anthony 1896 

Do you have a bike?  

A perfect autumn day has the crunching of leaves beneath my feet,

city windows dressed in the color of pumpkins,

and the smell of apples wafting in the air.

I use words like splender, bliss, luster and harvest.

Breathing in and out replenishes me.

I am in my element when partnered with autumn.