with winter acting like a nightmare tenant, ignoring his increasingly hostile eviction notices, i decided to go and buy a little spring today. i now have a beautiful cherry blossom mess on my kitchen counter, which is some consolation, but not complete consolation, for the wet snow quilting the forest duff outside my kitchen window.
cherry blossoms
saint paul, minnesota
with a blanket of snow re-covering anything with any color in our landscape, i turned to my desk full of spare parts, and spent the afternoon making an assemblage of assemblages. six pretty little frankensteins.
six trees assembled from mid-april bits
vadnais lake, saint paul, minnesota
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Yikes – snow?! Enough with snow, we all deserve spring! :-)
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the most recent “final snow of the year” rolled in from the north on thursday night. the next morning, when i looked northward toward the lake, all my tree trunks looked like tree trunks. when i looked southward, all the north facing tree trunks looked like divided highways with painted white median stripes down their centers.
snow painted tree trunk
saint paul, minnesota
i suppose this was an appropriate find on a wednesday during easter week. ash twigs are among my favorite winter branches; so nubby and textured. they look far from ashen, though. look at those terminal buds, swollen and ready to burst!
winter ash twigs
lake vadnais, saint paul, minnesota
i pulled this anemic winter leaf from a vine this afternoon on my daily walk. i’m pretty sure it was a wild cucumber vine. the (lack of) color caught my attention. the leaf looked like i felt after this winter, a little damaged but still intact. as i was photographing the leaf two hours later, i thought to myself, “this will be my homage, my send off, to a long difficult winter. from here on out, i will focus only on spring and promise and renewal”. then i got in the car to pick up my son from school, and the weather report said ‘70% chance of snow over the next two days.” i laughed. but anemically.
end of winter leaf
vadnais lake, saint paul, minnesota
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i love those end of winter leaves
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The joke is on us, here in Maine, as well. I woke up to snow this morning that has obscured all the Spring clean-up from days before. Oh well…..
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Love this photo. And too, exactly how I felt a few weeks ago as well. Spent. Longest winter ever.
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