Work in Progress

Purple

Vortex

Staring into the very vortex of the spring pollen season. :-)

Turkey

I heard this morning that we have T-urkey to t-hank for t-ulips. :-)

Virginia Referendum

I don't think yesterday's referendum in Virginia was as much a victory for the country as a whole as it may have been for Democrats. Yes, gerrymandering is bad. But so, too, is totalitarianism. A democracy can still function with gerrymandering.  Poorly, to be sure. It cannot when ruled by a tyrant. 

Variation

Wordless

Flowers like this leave me wordless. 

Spring Fashions

Quilt

This past week, Williamsburg rolled out a 500-foot quilt celebrating the nation's 250th year of independence.

Dorm Renovation & Construction

New Growth

Morning Dew

Beauty

Still taking the time, occasionally, to breath in deeply and to appreciate the beauty that surrounds us. Well, at least whenever I'm not choking on pollen. :-)

A Tulip Garden

Guarded within the old red wall's embrace,

Marshalled like soldiers in gay company,

The tulips stand arrayed.  Here infantry

Wheels out into the sunlight.  What bold grace

Sets off their tunics, white with crimson lace!

Here are platoons of gold-frocked cavalry,

With scarlet sabres tossing in the eye

Of purple batteries, every gun in place.

Forward they come, with flaunting colours spread,

With torches burning, stepping out in time

To some quick, unheard march.  Our ears are dead,

We cannot catch the tune.  In pantomime

Parades that army.  With our utmost powers

We hear the wind stream through a bed of flowers.

- Amy Lowell

Tandem

A very pleasant day to visit Colonial Williamsburg. Sun shining. Temps reasonable. All in all, a very enjoyable spring day.

Dogwoods

The dogwood trees are blooming here now. May I never be so distracted as not to notice.

Buttercups that "Skim"

Make me a picture of the sun --

So I can hang it in my room --

And make believe I'm getting warm

When others call it "Day"!

Draw me a Robin -- on a stem --

So I am hearing him, I'll dream,

And when the Orchards stop their tune --

Put my pretense -- away --

Say if it's really -- warm at noon --

Whether it's Buttercups -- that "skim" --

Or Butterflies -- that "bloom"?

Then -- skip -- the frost -- upon the lea --

And skip the Russet -- on the tree --

Let's play those -- never come!

- Emily Dickinson

Joining Skywatch Friday

Spring

Meanwhile, spring has arrived here in the middle-Atlantic states.

Drive-By

Youth Movement

No Kings protestors are getting younger and younger.