When Alan and I woke up this morning, it was 37° out, 
and I remembered seeing this clever Facebook sign a few days ago. 
So, is spring going to load or not?? 
Thankfully, it’s a gorgeous, sunshiny morning, and when I went outside 
I found ever so many reasons for believing that spring is on its way. 
For our mutual encouragement,
I’ve paired some bright thoughts about spring with the photographs:
“Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.”
—Lilly Pulitzer
“Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer!
I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.”—Gustav Mahler
“Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”…
“It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…”
—Rances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden 
“In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.” —Mark Twain 
“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
—Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast 
“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”—Susan J. Bissonette 
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”—Hal Borland 
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
—Vladimir Nobokov, Mary
“The sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to dwell,
And life would be all spring.”
—Emily Dickinson
“She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
‘Winter is dead’.”
—A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young 
“The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness,
the human soul is apt to revive also.” —Harriet Ann Jacobs 
“It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.”
—John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga
“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
—Kobayashi Issa, Poems 
“Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.”—Ellis Peters 
“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.”
—Ann Breadstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet 
“I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.” —Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
“Because the birdsong might be pretty,
But it’s not for you they sing,
And if you think my winter is too cold,
You don’t deserve my spring.”
—Erin Hanson 
“If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.” —Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
(This is Tom Turkey showing off for the girls.)
“It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” —Mark Twain 
“Always it’s Spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”
—E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems 
“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!”
—Sitting Bull 
“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.” —Pablo Neruda 
“For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.” —Isaiah 61:11 
“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” —Genesis 8:22
Summer Setting 