there is hope

 

… even for my corner of the globe. See it?

*Happy sigh*

I apologize for this being so few pictures. I’ve been a bit sick (again…) for several days, so hopefully when I get back at it I’ll have more for you. :)

a wider palette

 

You got a lot of green and yellow in my last post. On our spring break travels (which were minimal…) I found a spring palette with a broader range of colors—the colors I normally don’t expect to see till almost May.

Like pink.

Can you smell them? Flowering trees smell delicious!

I wish flowering trees were happier in my neck of the woods. Also lacking in my neck of the woods are vast blue waters with shiny white sailing ships docking in neat little lines… Pretty, aren’t they?

And I just couldn’t let you go without a little more green… and yellow. :)

The world is coming back to life!

green and yellow

 

What colors make you think of spring?

For me, it’s anything bright and cheerful … even though springs in Goldendale usually aren’t all that cheery. With roaring winds and heavy rain, March went out like just as much a lion as it came in. So the bright colors I think of usually correlate more with May (which is practically summer) than with March or April.

Still, there is some emerging evidence that the season is changing. And it’s colored green and yellow.

There aren’t any tulip blooms yet, but the graceful green leaves are crowding in clusters around Mom’s yellow forsythia, which is usually among the first to flower. (Wow, I could write alliterative verse. I didn’t even mean to do that…)

Okay, so sepia and black and white isn’t exactly yellow. But daffodils just automatically induce you to think of yellow, don’t they?

It’s not all plants, either.

So that’s the yellow. Yellow is such a sunshiny color. Still… green is just the best. I love green!

Have a blessed April!