And when Nature resumes her loveliness,
The human soul is apt to revive also.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Join me today to celebrate the sun’s direct rays crossing over the Earth’s equator from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere. Both hemispheres and every living creature on them is bathed in equal light today from our beloved sun. Let us celebrate the Northern Hemisphere’s First Day of Spring!
Thank you to Danny at Dream Big Dream Often for including a favorite post The Bright Daybreak of Peace. in his regular series Featured Bloggers. this week. It was one of my favorite posts to compose and write and received much positive attention. Works for today as we bathe in our shared sunlight.Β First Day of Spring is a perfect day to perfect to visit Β Dream Big Dream Often.
And a blessed holy day to those celebrating Palm Sunday today. This is also the International Day of Happiness.
Today’s Music: Pharrell Williams- Happy
Your flower photos are so cheery. Spring is such a happy season, so glad it has arrived.
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Beautiful post JoHanna. Happy Spring to you π
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Thank you for sharing such Beauty!!
Author, Catherine Lyon π
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Spring has Sprung over on the other side of the Mississippi as well! Celebrating it in a different way!
I love your collage.
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Beautiful sentiments, so glad that your message of peace is spreading across the world.
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Pretty pictures.
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I love that song – it always makes me smile. Wishing you a very happy day!
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I loved this, thanks for sharing. x
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Great spring collage. The morning doves are a great touch.
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A wonderful day but chilly here. The sun will be out day after tomorrow. We did have several warm lovely days last weekend though. I still feel like celebrating!
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Beautiful way to welcome first day of Spring π
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Your flowers certainly gave me a touch of spring fever, JoHanna. I really like Pharrell. Peggy loves Voice, so I get to see a lot of him. βCurt
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I have no sooner captured these beautiful pink blossoms, than they have now moved onto full leaves. A fast track spring within the man made irrigated landscaping while the native desert blooms appear to take a careful and cautious unfolding of spring grounded in the more natural rhythms.
May you and Peggy have a most excellent Spring.
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Thank you. I have been enjoying capturing photos of the neighborhood coming into blossom and leaf.
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I have just been embracing the joy of being in the high desert for spring and finding it difficult to stay inside. Of course, it has gotten warm early and quickly, and it won’t be very long I bet before we see some triple digit temperatures here.
All my best to you.
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Oh those doves. I have been making a concerted effort to learn all the buttons and options for my camera. Focusing tightly has been my recent challenge. These doves arrived for several mornings to sit on the back wall of the property and provide me opportunities to work with the camera. What I didn’t count on was just how active and comical these pretty little doves could be while staying within some unseen to me perimeters on the wall.
Thank you for the visit Bernadette. All my best to you.
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Pleased you enjoyed. Thank you.
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Choosing the song to use for this post was the first time I had actually seen/listened to the video. Goodness it is an uplifting piece of creativity.
Thank you for stopping by for a visit.
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Some of the unofficial country versions are great too – you can find them on YouTube. I love the Jamaican version.
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Hello Spring: joy, peace, armony and happiness β€
Ciao
Sid
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Thank you for the suggestion.
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I see you share a love of nature. It’s love and love is everything. Thanks for sharing.
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Our planet is wise and beautiful, generous, bountiful, and interesting. JUst a few reasons why I love being outside best. Thank you for visiting.
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Agreed. If ever you find yourself in the UK you are welcome to drop by! I hope you do not mind I have used your copyright notice to put on my site. I was looking for one online then found yours. I sadly discovered a website adding my work without asking. It really hurt me. It is so important to have a notice. I never realised this could happen. Am going to put it on my site will send you link to ensure you are ok with it.
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Just added, do you think it’s ok. I’ve put it at my top menu. It’s lovely to meet you. We’ve an eclipse on Wednesday. Spring is here!
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Thank you for the invitation. One of the things I adore about WordPress is that I have connected and stay in touch with people from all over the planet since creating my website.
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I agree, I used to be on Twitter and became very depressed with it all and the anononinity. Then I gave this a go. I do feel so at home here. So easy to chat. I send you love. I shall keep tuned to your posts. So expressive.
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Thank you.
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Just checked out your notice and it looks most excellent to me.
I put mine up as well as began imprinting my photos following an incident where I was surprised to find an essay/photos of mine proudly displayed and getting lots of feedback on someone else’s website.
Not confident that the Notice and the Imprint make a huge difference, but I do believe they are important.
All my best to you.
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So am I. I am enjoying so much creating positive peace filled posts and sending them out into cyberspace. My own little cyber peace ministry of sorts.
I find your website to be so interesting and peaceful, enjoy it very much.
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Good Morning Girlfriend. This should wake up your Mississippi groove.
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*clapping along* because I’m happy! And thank you for sharing the beauty of Earth in rebirth, at least in this hemisphere, but still, there’s just happiness everywhere!
XOXO
Fim
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yes it does happen, especially when i used to put photographs on her e without my name on. I do take images from pinterest though. So wonder whether I should? Usually they have the name of the author on there though? I suppose it’s good networking if our names are on it. Have you seen my other site http://www.belleva.co.uk If ever you want a piece on there if you add the reblog button i can add it with so much pleasure. Let me know. x
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Such beautiful Spring pictures JoHanna! Happy Spring!xx
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Sometimes I feel that my style is’nt deep or serious enough. Then I remind myself that this world needs as much love and positivity that can be send out there. There’s no need to send out more ‘dark’ than there already is..
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Yes., indeed.
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Thanks JoHanna. We will be in Death Valley tomorrow. I understand it is having one of the best flower seasons ever. Hopefully, they are still blooming. βCurt
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Oh this is going to be a spectacular time for you. Enjoy.
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Harriet JacobsΒ΄ introductory verses are beautiful.. and your words are so joyful and positive…
I hope you have an excellent Spring ahead… It is autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, where I am though… But I think it is also a good season…
All the best to you, dear Johanna!, Aquileana π
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Thank you Lynz. The sudden and color filled spring, after a very mild beige winter…the sun constant and clear throughout… has me doing the happy dance and so grateful that we chose to return to the high desert.
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Yes a beige winter for sure! The high desert sounds lovely!
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Happy Spring to you also! We haven’t got as much to show for it here as you’ve there so I really enjoy your shots of colour. Wishing you a lovely Easter weekend. Xx
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Happy spring to you too, JoHanna π
Lovely photos, peaceful sentiment and happy song! π β₯ β€
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Thank you for the visit and kind words.
βIs the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”…
“It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…β
β Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
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The native desert plants in their native settings are just waking up, to a much different schedule than the huge amount of landscaping desert oasis plantings that proliferate here.
Wishing you and your lovely family a Happy Easter holiday.
βIt is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.β
β Rainer Maria Rilke
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My pleasure, JoHanna π Your blog is a pleasant place and that is a wonderful quote! Wishing you a happy Easter weekend π β₯ β€
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A wonderful Easter Weekend to you also. π°
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Hello dear Fimnora. Thank you for clapping along. Yes, indeed it is spring for some of us. ANd I am grateful to be here to witness it’s colorful arrival.
βDespite the forecast, live like it’s spring.β
β Lilly Pulitzer
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Thank you for stopping by this fine spring day!
βWhat a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.β
β Kobayashi Issa, Poems
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Thank you dear Jacqueline. May your Easter weekend be excellent. Thank you for stopping by.
βSpring is the time of plans and projects.β
β Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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Harriet Ann Jacobs is so right, what a wonderful quote. I am so looking forward to all the beauty of Spring, time for Nature to wake up and celebrate one again!! Happy Spring JoHanna and everyone…love your beautiful photos!! π
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Spring does seem especially beautiful to me this year. Thank you for your kind words and support.
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Oh you are very welcome Catherine.
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” Anne Frank
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Thank you so very much. Spring is certainly busting out beautiful here this holiday weekend in the high desert.
Your words of praise are joy to me. All my best to you.
βThe sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to dwell,
And life would be all spring.β
β Emily Dickinson
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Oh so am I. At least for those of us in the northern hemisphere!
I share your gladness in Springs arrival.
Thank you for stopping by. Enjoy your weekend.
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I will take that advice! XOXO *Cat*
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It’s a pleasure. It really is a good time for both.
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Simply wonderful!
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It already is, JoHanna. Death Valley was its usual beautiful self. Not much in the way of Internet connections, however. (grin) βCurt
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Wonderful words β€
Ciao
Sid
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Thank you very much. Spring feels especially good to me this year.
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Oh my dear, thank you for stopping by with your always inspiring self. Your words are joy for me. Thank you.
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That is excellent to hear!
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Thank you. There is something magical about photographing landscapes in Italy. Takes me to a level of surprise and amazement when looking through the lens. Over and over, can’t get enough. These lines say it best.
βFirst of all, let’s get one thing straight. Your Italy and our Italia are not the same thing. Italy is a soft drug peddled in predictable packages, such as hills in the sunset, olive groves, lemon trees, white wine, and raven-haired girls. Italia, on the other hand, is a maze. It’s alluring, but complicated. It’s the kind of place that can have you fuming and then purring in the space of a hundred meters, or in the course of ten minutes. Italy is the only workshop in the world that can turn out both Botticellis and Berlusconis.β
β Beppe Severgnini, La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
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A beautiful and positive post, JoHanna. Love your spring images. π
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Oh yes! The most clear-sighted and pertinent analysis: Italy and Italia are two subjects: love both of them or never understand them π
Ciao
Sid
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I noticed the two doves or mourning doves among the photos of pretty flowers, JoHanna. I admire Pharrell Williams and how he has plugged along in music, finally coming into his stride. π this song is great and i like his philosophy. While talking about music as an art one time he said “It isn’t the kite but the wind that matters.” It seemed like he was expressing gratitude. π
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The doves arrive on the back garden wall in the morning. A Good Morning Reminder of Peace that I enjoyed incorporating into ‘When Nature Resumes Her Loveliness.’
Thank you for your kind words, support, and sharing the interesting references to Pharrell Williams. π
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Jammin’ to “Happy”! Whew! What a workout on my Journey of JOY!!
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Isn’t that song just the thing to shake yourself out in the morning? Thank you for your visit. π΅
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I’ve been using this to dance about for a few weeks now. Excellent results. Thank you for stopping by.
π΅
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