April 15, 2016

Every year

I wake up in total shock

to see it snowing on

the tulips

the street

 the trees

 the deck

 and saddest of all

 the peach blossoms

Every Year!

Like it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

IT'S SNOW, BIG DEAL

It's snow big deal, since it happens every year.
It's just snow-on-tulip-time, as displayed here.

Yet, I'm truly sorry for your tulip's plight
As the snow stole in like a thief in the night.

   --By my brother, DeLoy, who lives in Sunny California

     And probably has forgotten what snow is.

After I told DeLoy that by afternoon the sun was shining
and every thing was dry
(the lovely thing about spring snows),
he wrote:

Like a kite in the sky, shed of its hold string,
One day in warm sun caused such snow to take wing.

Spring in Utah

 NORTH

Catch the hemlock?  Too pretty to destroy. . . .

 SOUTH

If of thy mortal goods

thou art bereft

and from thy slender

store two loaves

alone to thee are left,

Sell one

and with the dole

Plant tulips and cacti

to feed thy soul. 

(Adapted from a poem by Moslih Eddin Saadi)  

BONUS

Shirley found another blouse to go with the sweater her sisters gave her for her spring birthday.