I love when the first green begins to sprout on the plants. It just always seems like the birth of new life to me. Spring is my favorite time of year. Everything is warming up and the end of winter is here. The whole thing gives me so much excitement for the future. It cheers me up from my perpetual negativity and makes everything seem good and right.
I've been doing what I said I needed, and that is going out to the forest and just being in nature. Walking through the forest is my favorite thing to do, and I sometimes only realize that when I finally get out there.
This first green of spring now has me out trying to fix up the area around my house. I don't usually bother with that much. I like to keep things a little wild. It keeps most neighbors away, and I just like the way it looks. It reminds me of more natural places that I like to visit.
But this year I'm fixing it up. It gives me an excuse to be outside even when I'm at home. And I get to be out surrounded by all of the new green. The green in these pictures is just the beginning. Everything is turning green now. I love the new green. It's a different color than when it ages. My favorite time of year. I'll talk to you later.
I have green the whole year long.
ReplyDeleteThat makes me miss the fall.
I'd like to have green the whole year long too, but then I'd miss the other seasons too.
Deleteworking in my garden here helps celebrate spring, I am up to 55 veggies and flowers I have added or started in flats.
ReplyDeleteI keep telling myself to plant a garden, but I never quite seem to get there. One of these times I'll do it.
DeleteNature revitalizes most who enjoy it. Perhaps the Rx for stress is a wonderful walk in the woods, along a lake shore, or along a deserted beach. I started following you because you represented, to me, an average person who loves the natural world. And that, my friend, is a wonderful, wonderful thing to be.
ReplyDeleteA walk in the woods is exactly what does it for me every time. I wish I could do it much more than I've been able to do lately.
DeleteEven here in Southern California, where it's still green in winter, we get a different, lighter green in spring. It's pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteThat lighter green is what I love. It just feels so new.
DeleteI do lve it when colour start to flood back into a barren landscape after the dark of winter!!
ReplyDeleteThat's what makes it my favorite time of year.
DeleteI'm glad you captured this moment! We had a mild winter so we weren't as desperate for signs of spring as we usually are. Still, it seems like all of a sudden the countryside is a burst of green.
ReplyDeleteMy winter was a mixture of mild and harsh. It was bitterly cold, but I had very little snow.
DeleteI love that misty green of early spring.
ReplyDeleteThat misty green is what makes spring feel so special to me.
DeleteGlad to see you are out and enjoying nature.
ReplyDeleteI hope to be out and enjoying nature much more now that spring is here.
Deletebeautiful, I had been behind or way behind in my posting too, but we do need the break once a while so we would be refreshed as these greens here.
ReplyDeleteI've been a little too far behind recently. I can't quite seem to get caught up. Maybe this new spring will help.
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