Narcissus ‘Geranium’
Bleeding Heart and Tulips
All photos Willowdale Estate, Topsfield.
Think Spring!
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Documentary filmmaker, photographer, landscape designer, author, and illustrator. "Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly" currently airing on PBS. Current film projects include Piping Plovers, Gloucester's Feast of St. Joseph, and Saint Peter's Fiesta. Visit my websites for more information about film and design projects at kimsmithdesigns.com, monarchbutterflyfilm.com, and pipingploverproject.org. Author/illustrator "Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! Notes from a Gloucester Garden." View all posts by Kimsmithdesigns
Good Morning Gloucester 
Spring’s Symphony
By Peter A. Todd
Thepoetryofpeteralberttodd.weebly.com
The rooster as it awakes us at early morn
Sparrows building their family nest
A mother horse tending to her new born
Blue Jays flying about in sorted vests
Squirrels running about playing catch me if you can
With the baby ducklings chasing at their feet
The cooking of eggs and bacon in the frying pan
Children chasing the bus to get the best seat
An American Eagle flying in the sky
With old glory waving its colors in the Spring breeze
The rippling of the stream its river nigh
A gift of our creator to our eye’s to please
Taking in the scent of the flowers as they bloom
Joining in with nature to whistle a happy song
This is our freedom with Springs Symphony in tune
This is our Country that we as Americans proudly belong
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Thank you for sharing Spring’s Symphony Peter.
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Really beautiful and encouraging photos, Kim! We need Spring!
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Thank you Ann–she is really inching along this year. Hopefully, when Spring finally does enter the scene, the temperatures won’t sky rocket and we will enjoy an extended blooming period!
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Gotta love flowers.
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So agree Paul–what is there Not to love!
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Just catching up on my GMG reading… When I saw these I thought “Wow, my garden is way behind this year” because my bleeding hearts just broke ground. Your pictures are stunning and I can almost smell that narcissus from here. I,too, hope the spring bloom will be extended by cool weather as I treasure those flowers that come first so much. My crocuses were gone too fast! Thanks for reminding me what I have to look forward to!
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Thanks Deb–my garden too is staring to come alive–and I saw a Mourning Cloak butterfly several days ago–another sure sign!
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