Welcome April and Goodbye March #WelcomeApril

Welcome April and Goodbye March #WelcomeApril! Say hello April with me! Quotations about April and Quotes, Sayings photo. Anyone who has a bulb has spring.  Bulbs don’t need much light; they don’t need good soil; and they don’t need cosseting.  They are, in fact, the horticultural equivalent of cats; self-contained, easy-care, and supremely suited to living in New York.

The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents.  Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of about fifteen miles a day.  It ascends mountainsides at the rate of about a hundred feet a day.  It sweeps ahead like a flood of water, racing down the long valleys, creeping up hillsides in a rising tide.  Most of us, like the man who lives on the bank of a river and watches the stream flow by, see only one phase of the movement of spring.  Each year the season advances toward us out of the south, sweeps around us, goes flooding away to the north.

In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another.  The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man.  So green, so mild, so beautiful!  Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!