Rejoice: It’s azalea time! in Daydreaming on the Porch
- March 3, 2022, 1:26 a.m.
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This is the exact time of year I long for during Winter, even though our winters are mild. The woods are bare and lifeless, and gardens are shriveled stalks and husks.
But earlier this week, on the first day of March on a perfect early Spring day, I decided to visit Magnolia Gardens to see the progress of the annual azalea bloom. Sure enough, I discovered path after path with raging red, gorgeous pink and enchanting white azaleas blooms everywhere I walked. The brilliant clusters of eye-popping color greeted me at every turn. What a magical and beautiful fairyland, there to bedazzle and amaze under sunny-blue and warm skies. A day where Mother Nature reaches out with utter perfection in mind to bestow her gifts.
While the mountains of North Carolina and the entirety of New England blaze with oranges and reds in Autumn, we here in coastsl South Carolina have our Azalea Time each Spring. It’s just as incomparably beautiful as Fall colors elsewhere in that season so distant now from Spring. I think if I ever leave this place, I will miss the azaleas more than anything else.
On another day when a barbaric and inhumane war is being waged half way across the world, and yet so very close to us and everone else on Earth, I am thankful I can pause for an hour and rejoice in the beauty that is all around us. Without Spring here to be a comforting salve to the spirit, I would be feeling rather despondent. But Spring is a time of hope and rebirth. Within one fateful week, everything in the old order seems changed. But flowers and Spring, are eternal, and we need to be reminded emphatically of that fact especially when such dark clouds loom on the horizon.
Magnolia Gardens Spring 2022
Jinn ⋅ March 03, 2022
You are right. They are gorgeous !
Oswego Jinn ⋅ March 03, 2022
😊
Deleted user ⋅ March 03, 2022 (edited March 03, 2022)
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As always I love to see these pictures! My day is just begun and after my rage of yesterday I was also trying to write about how beautiful the world can be especial now, when blossoms and tiny new green leaves replace the gray winter colors.
On the other hand, we wake up every day with the reports about the criminals in the east of us. Our government is trying to organize the aid and has asked the Belgians to report if they have free room in their houses for refugees. More than 10,000 have already registrated and there are many more to do so. Municipalities also register if they own buildings that they can prepare for Ukrainians.
If I then hear on our channel Russians in Moscow or other cities say that it is not the Russians who are bombing Ukraine and killing adults and children, but the Ukrainians themselves to cleanse the country of Neo Nazis, then I would be able to join in to fight. They are totally misinformed and only get to see state television and the lies of this new 'H....'
except for the younger generation who keep themselves informed via internet, twitter etc. Also via telephone conversations with friends who study in other European countries. But if they protest in the streets they are arrested.
Oswego Deleted user ⋅ March 03, 2022
I can’t bear to think of what is happening to the innocent people of Ukraine, invaded by this barbarian dictator.
But it is so encouraging to see how so many in Belgium and other countries are opening their borders and hones to refugees, including those most in need.
https://apnews.com/article/58f1e1da27ce76f413bef5ebc6bfe0e4
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ConnieK ⋅ March 03, 2022
War will be on America's doorstep if we cannot stop the Russian aggression overseas. Lovely description of seasonal changes!
Oswego ConnieK ⋅ March 03, 2022
It already is — psychologically.
music & dogs & wine ⋅ March 03, 2022
Love!
MageB ⋅ March 03, 2022
Beautiful things.