Springtime

Springtime flowers bloom like colorful arrows piercing their way to the sun. – Terri Guillemets

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. – Bern Williams

Spring stirs under silent snow. – Terri Guillemets

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. – Nadine Stair

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! – Wallace Stevens

The front door to springtime is a photographer’s best friend. – Terri Guillemets

The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase. – E.B. White, “Hot Weather,” One Man’s Meat, 1944

Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire. – Virgil

Crocus. – Lilja Rogers

May is a pious fraud of the almanac. – James R. Lowell

How wonderfully these pictures have caught the look of tentative spring—spring waiting for a single day to burst into living green. – Alice Morse Earle, “In Lilac Tide,” Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth, 1901

You can’t see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it’s there. It’s the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland. – Paul Fleischman

Spring: the music of open windows. – Terri Guillemets

People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. – Rogers Hornsby