First Signs of Spring

A Cloud Hands Blog repost from February 26, 2010:  

“A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school. It meant something for me; what, I couldn’t say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life.” - A. L. Rowse 

 The thousands of acres of almond orchards in the North Sacramento Valley are all in bloom these days. A spectacular sight!

   

 Heavy rain today and Saturday will keep us indoors most of the time.  

Time for indoor chores and reading. I will start working on the Deer Frolic Qigong this weekend. 

rain-soaked
olive branches droop—
ground fogs rise 

 Daily rain—
from the deep well
this glass of water.

- Above the Fog, Haiku by Mike Garofalo 

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