Spring Has Sprung

A little surprise from my yard. I found these sweet things in bloom yesterday. We are getting an early spring this year - I hear the robins chirping noisily in the treetops as I sit writing this. Typically we are still covered in snow in late March. It's been so mild, more like late April! I will be working on another portrait out on my porch again today...

Wick

Some pictures from my yard this morning. All is wick!

When a thing is wick, it has a life about it. Now, maybe not a life like you and me. But somewhere there's a single streak of green inside it. Come, and let me show you what I mean. When a thing is wick, it has a light around it. Maybe not a light that you can see. But hiding down below a spark's asleep inside it, waiting for the right time to be seen. You clear away the dead parts, so the tender buds can form, loosen up the earth and let the roots get warm...

Dickon from The Secret Garden