“It won’t be long until the springtime, when we may open the windows and breathe God’s fresh air… Soon will the birds come back… How cheerfully Nature greets them. She puts out her leaves to hide their homes, and kisses them with the wind, the warm wind… Ah, Spring, we wait for you; for as the sap mounts the limbs of the tree so hope rises and we become bright again.”

~Charles F. Raymond, “The Springtime,” Just Be Glad, 1907

Shared by Betty Hanselman
Gardener’s wife (& eager spring seer!)

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