The Spring Came Suddenly

The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Everyone is saying it.

This March is the warmest one any of us can recollect. After a short, mild, mostly-snowless winter, spring seems to have arrived boldly, swiftly and packing the heat of a mid-June afternoon. Temperatures have been in the twenties celsius (70 to 78 F) for over a week now, and buds which usually begin to show signs of minute growth in April, are showing measurable growth daily.

The images below were taken March 11 through 16. They depict my first photographic signs of budding and growth. Everything has changed considerably since then. So I'll have more photos in a few days.

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises,The earth renews its magical youth at a breath. ~Arthur Symons

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm. ~ John Muir

Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment. ~Ellis Peters

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.
~Lewis Grizzard

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! ~Wallace Stevens

I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright. ~Millard Kaufman

"The force of Spring -
mysterious,
fecund,
powerful beyond measure."
- Michael Garofalo

"When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring." ~ Farkas Bolyai

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. ~Ernest Hemingway