Photographs from a Bloy in Wisconsin
At Olbrich Botanical Gardens the other day, I followed this bee around for quite a while, as she scurried from flower to flower, circling each one, and sometimes digging deep to gather the flower’s nectar. I got to thinking… there’s a lesson here. If you can’t find what nourishes you, keep trying, dig deeper if you have to. Eventually you’ll find it.
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On this Arbor Day, one of my favorite sights of spring: Small, delicate leaves growing from tree branches that have been bare for the past five months.
I’m feeling grateful for signs of spring, like snowdrops sprouting out of ground that still has patches of snow.
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A little bit of autumn, frozen in time.
The trees in southern Wisconsin aren’t green yet, but look close, they will be soon.
A pandemic can stop a lot of things, but not Spring. Saw these snow drops while out on a walk yesterday.
Since I’ve been working from home for almost two weeks now, I’m trying to get out of the house everyday. At the very least, that means a good walk around the neighborhood. When I was out today and saw these pussy willows in the process of emerging, I thought of them as a metaphor for our current situation.
Right now, most of us are in a social distancing “winter.” Someday that season will end, we will emerge from semi-isolation, and live our normal lives again. Until then, we have this pussy willow to help us remember it will not be forever.
