Summer comes.
It cannot be stopped, will not be held back.
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It pushes up from the southernmost places, unfurling in gold light.
The icecicles grow narrow.
The pond darkens at its center — liquid underneath, warming into wet.
Small green things force their way out of the earth and into the sun — believing, as they always do, that winter cannot last.
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Oh, friends … I can promise you this:
Summer stops for nothing. ❤
ASHLEY WILSON FELLERS 
What a sweet poem.. Love the imagery😊
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Thank you!! 🙂
All the credit for those images goes to what’s happening outside my window. 🙂
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You put it into words so beautifully 😊
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I’m so glad. 🙂 Happy spring-to-be!
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😀😀😀😀
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rainwet I like – and colour for this one
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Thanks Derrick!
My eyes were a little hungry for red, so …
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It’s thawing out and coming closer. Lovely anticipation.
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The anticipation is part of the fun … 🙂
Hope you’re happy today, Miriam! 🙂
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Thanks Ashley, yes I am.
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And hearing that made ME happy. 🙂
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Oh, I love the richness of the color in the umbrella against the pale blue sky. I’m holding you to your promise. ☀️
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Summer has never failed me yet. 🙂
I took this one in the August heat, and dug it up just as a reminder of what summer looks like … Making me happy today! 🙂
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It’s making me happy, too! Red is one of my favorite colors. 😄
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Indeed! It’s a bold color in my world, but this time of year, bold feels right. 🙂
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I was surprised to see a color photo along your words 🙂 Yesterday we had such a wonderful weather here in Switzerland, clear blue sky and the sun was shining – it was the best! Today we’re back to clouds.
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Ah, Switzerland … What a sky you seem to have. 🙂
And yes: color is outside of the norm for me. But I need it this time of year, at least in moderation.
So glad you enjoyed! 🙂
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A promise, on a cold, rainwet day … i like this photo – It was a beautiful color
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I’m glad, Suci! I’m not typically into color — I love surrounding myself with layered tonal colors, particularly very muted shades — but this time of year the world around me is very gray, and so I’m hungry for brightness and light.
Wishing your lots of sun, and vivid colors galore! Enjoy! 🙂
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changed for the better it must be, to use your time with a lot of worship
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Let’s hear for Global Warming!
Go Bama, go!
(Sorry!)
😉
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Ha!
It’s just a brief thaw, I suppose, but I’m enjoying it anyway. I’ll take all the sunshine I can get! 🙂
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Do. The worst part about winter is not so much the cold as the absence of light. Even a cold sunshine is welcome.
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You’re so right. That, and I dearly miss the green. I’ve filled my house with great big tropical bromeliads, and just today I brought home a sheaf of ivy that had fallen from the trees in our recent windstorm. It’s like my eyes are hungry for certain colors … Sometimes ravenous. 🙂
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Very understandable. Plants are sprouting green everywhere here. Will come your way soon.
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Hear hear!! 🙂
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haha! Be patient, it is sprouting here, so it’s only a matter of time before it reaches you. 🙂
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Indeed. I’ll take that as encouragement. 🙂
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Do. (As I cough and cough the bl..dy cold that caught me by surprise yesterday! hah!) 😦
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Oh no! Please take good care of yourself and rest.
Perfect excuse for a hot beverage and a little R&R. 🙂
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Thank you. Spent most of my day in bed (which I hate) but I should be better… sometime. 🙂
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You will. Rest is truly the best medicine sometimes (& the hardest to take).
Stay warm and cozy! 🙂
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This is beautiful. It speaks in a literal but also metaphoric sense.
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I’m so glad you enjoyed! 🙂
And it’s true: on so many levels, I believe good things are just over the horizon. 🙂
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This is poetry.
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Oh, Heidi, thank you. I didn’t write this one as a poem, but you’re the second person to call it that. 🙂 I like writing that blurs the line there, so, I truly appreciate it!
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