Iris in the Yard

Spring is my favorite time of year. Too bad it seems so short. Maybe that is why I haven’t updated this blog for 3 months…time just moves too fast. Plus, let’s be honest…who really reads this blog anyway? Well, I guess I would continue to write periodically even if there was only one reader.

Kitty in the Jungle.

One of my favorite parts of spring is watching the flowers bloom. The weeds in the yard are out of control. But the flowers help make up for it. Pictured here is an Iris from the yard. Iris are a new addition this year. The Tulips this year were unbelieveable, every color and shape imaginable.

Every year I like to try to capture the beauty of the flowers with my camera. Every year seems to be a disappointment. Yes, the photos are getting better but there is always room for improvement. What I see in my minds eye, usually doesn’t translate to the picture. Isn’t that how life goes…the beauty we see is often fleeting and hard to capture.

I turned a year older a couple of weeks ago. Aging is such a mysterious and yet inescapable process. Like the peddles of a tulip, the skin turns from perfectly smooth and flawless to withered and dried in the course of it’s lifetime. There is no going back. We should be grateful for our children. When we were their age we didn’t think about the smoothness of our skin, the spring in our step or how easy it was to fall asleep. We didn’t appreciate what we had. We can enjoy our children’s youthfulness, even if they do not.

I guess that is why Spring is my favorite season. each year I get a chance to relive the grandeur and mystery of life just beginning, weeds and all.