This week a nice Easter spring poem to start this week. One of the best time of the year...for everything is coming to life all over.
There is no time like Spring,
When life’s alive in everything,
Before new nestlings sing,
Before cleft swallows speed their journey back
Along the trackless track –
God guides their wing,
He spreads their table that they nothing lack, –
Before the daisy grows a common flower
Before the sun has power
To scorch the world up in his noontide hour…
-Christina Rossetti
Well, top o' the morning to ya. That's lovely, and may it all be true.
ReplyDeletethe second pix; the table setting; reminds me of miss agnes.
ReplyDeleteLove the colors in that first one.
ReplyDeleteAnd the hats! "We'll have to find a special locker for that hat."
You know I love me a good hat!!!!
DeletePuts me in the mood for Easter, especially those elaborately decorated eggs!
ReplyDeleteNothing says Easter more then hats and bunnies.
ReplyDeleteThe duck is a little on the rare side for the table.
ReplyDeleteYour hat is casting shade on me.
ReplyDeleteI've been known to keep a family of four dry and out of the rain dear.
DeleteThe first picture says it all!
ReplyDeletexoxo :-)
Love it!
ReplyDeleteI love that first pic and the eggs!
I think this spring is going to be much, much better than last.
Fingers crossed!
XOXO
Thank you for the cheerful mood!
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Never let it be said I don't bring you flowers.
DeleteThe first pic reminds me of Dutch paintings, the second(as AnneMarie says)reminds me of Agnes' beautiful table settings.
ReplyDeleteThey are all such lovely pics. Just what we need!
Thank you for the Easter Parade. Both you and Pam need to sporting those hats! Have a lovely day... enjoy the spring! - Kizzes.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Easter is in the air. One Easter Sunday we took our six year old to the Pitt-Rivers museum which has such marvels for children....shrunken heads, dead animals in formaldehyde (long before Damien Hurst had the idea) and all that jazz. One of the curators showed her the museum's drawers of antique eastern European painted Easter eggs. And if you are over our way any time, our other main museum, the Ashmolean, the oldest public museum in the UK, has a whole gallery of 17th century Dutch-Flemish still lifes.
ReplyDeleteI have made a notation of that Helen. We have a similar museum like that here in Philly, The Mutter Museum filled with oddities...great curiosity for children as well. I bet those Dutch -Flemish stills would be neat to see?
DeleteI love the rabbit with the big ears.
ReplyDeleteI love that hare!!!
DeleteI like it when post some poetry.
ReplyDeleteMs. Christina R is one of my favorites. Do you know "Goblin Market"?
I have not, but now must go look it up.
DeleteOne of these is not like the others, so naturally I gravitated toward it. That chick with the fried egg had me laughing hard! I'm sick that way.
ReplyDeleteIt did me too! I love that they caught him with his beak open in shock!
DeleteBeautiful...great way to greet a Monday morning!!!
ReplyDeleteThat peep looking at the fried egg CRACKED me up. No pun intended.
ReplyDeleteLoved this board.
Thank you M.E.! It's nice to know I'm not alone!
DeleteI join you both; the chick is looking at the egg and thinking "MOTHER, NOOOOOOO!"
DeleteAll four of us are sick. But it just cracks me up. I sure hope the chick wasn't traumatized.
DeleteNow Mistress, you know Im loving those table setting, especially the first one. But somehow I don't think my family will find it cute if I give out live chicks as a dinner favor! And could I could it to sit nice like that? Love the hats hats hats!!!!
ReplyDeleteEaster Parade?
how are you doing, agnes dear?
DeleteNo, I don't think you'll get the chick to sit there like that Agnes, unless you slip it some downers. And yes Easter Parade!!!!! Good eye!!! One of my favorite movies.
DeleteGorgeous photos. Those hats are YOU, although I'd like the tilty violet-blue (or is it blue-violet).
ReplyDeleteReminder to self: as soon as the stores open next week, I must go shopping for a new hat. A BIG ONE! Jx
ReplyDeleteIs there any other kind of hat to have? Make a big statement or go home, I dare say.
Deletelove the poem and the pics. To tell you the truth, I think the opposite of you, but, in a sense, like you. In my opinion, the most beautiful season, which rewgala the most wonderful colors, is autumn. Surely not the summer (too hot) and not the winter, even if I can't say that, in the last decade, during the winter it is particularly cold, at least in Italy. (probably due to global warming).
ReplyDeleteI think if you look hard next fall, you will agree with me.
That's a great photo of my desert cousin, Sunny Hare! Love all the flowers, Easter eggs and duckling place settings.... I feel like spring has finally sprung, LOL!
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