A fine Spring Day

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Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

--Chief Sitting Bull, Sioux Leader

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We didn't realize it until The Namibian newspaper informed us this morning, but September 1st is "Spring Day" in Namibia. As we have previously blogged, spring is indeed in the air.*

I thought I'd post some photos of flowers on trees, shrubs, and other plants in our yard, which have just started blooming in the past week. Our yard is fairly minimal with regards to blooming plants--there are large trees in our neighborhood with massive yellow blossoms. Other trees look ready to burst at any moment.

Happy Spring Day, NTN readers!

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*accordingly, our 'winter time' comes to an end this weekend. We will 'spring forward' an hour, so we will be 7 hours different than Central Time in the US. We'll now be Greenwich Mean Time + 2.

As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season. --Wilfred Owen, WWI War Poet/Soldier from England

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. --Ikkyu Sojun, Japanese poet and Zen Master



If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. -- Anne Bradstreet, American poet (1600s)

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. --Pam Brown (absolutely no idea who she is)

Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed. --David Letterman, comedian/talk show host