Saturday, 21 February 2009

• House of Scrolls

  HI,

  I am looking forward to spring being here soon and warmer weather.

  In my mind are the flowers that will be springing forth

  and I thought i would come by and make a list of flowers dear to my heart, and which i am always happy to see whenever they bloom.

  my favorite of all flowers is the violet with its heart shaped leaves.

  But of course they are not the first to bloom.

  Snowdrops and spring beauties,

  delicate and white are usually the first in sight

  crocus in purple or yellow or white, maybe even pink

  appear fairly quickly and hyacinth, i love its scent

  they are the ones  with the column of star shaped flowers

  usually purple but like the crocus, come in many pastel shades

  then come the yellow forsythia bushes and the pink hawthorn

  the dogwood trees begin to unfurl their blooms too

  and yellow daffodils and jonquils and buttercups

   and narcissi with two flowers on one stem

   mirror images of each other dot the countryside

  violets appear, and lilacs bloom

  by this time it is late march, early april

  and the fruit trees get their blossoms too

  pear with a scent  reminding me of fish

  apple, cherry and peach

  dandelions add their yellow heads to the tangling grass

  soon to turn to globes and fly as seed with the wind

  wherever it blows

  children love the dandelion

  adults find them irritating weeds

  they forget how beautiful they can be

  irises i also love very much,

  some people call them flags

  honeysuckle and trumpetvine

   make their appearance a bit later in season

  along with wildrose and thistle

  roses, the cultured kind, most people find

  as the flower most divine

  their perfume most memorable,  most preferred

  but i never forget the shy violet covering the bank

  of the Ohio of my childhood

  for it was the violet stole my heart at 2 years old

  and taught me the beauty of flowers

   

   

   

   

   

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