OUT of GREEN SLIME......

"Slime is my favourite 'go-to stress reliever!" ( slime puns)

East coast gets snow, ice , more snow and ice. We get slime. Green goobers left over from winter. 

Out of those slimy green goobers comes the Cat Plant. It curls like a new fern. It's roots go deep.

"The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of humankind. The decay of humanity. The fragrant flower that springs from it , for the purity and courage which are immortal...." -Henry David Thoreau

"You know you're a gardener when you're happy to devote three months of your life growing (rhubarb ) or tomatoes, to save $1.27.." 

                                                                             -Unkown

"Spring being a hard act to follow, God created June..." 

               -Al Bernstein

"What's a gardener's favourite song? Lettuce be.."-Garden  puns

"The early bird gets the worm, but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.." -Charles M. Schultz

Slime on the bird bath, Slime in the water basins. Scrape it, scoop it like pistachio ice cream. Fresh water. Then just a lone Towhee. Splish Splash. Takin' a bath!

                       "The clouds don't think. They just drift....." - Avijeet Das

"Somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime!" -Rupert Brooke

"I think coughing up slugs was quite hard....(Harry Potter series) " -Rupert Grint from "Harry Potter"

"April comes like an idiot...babbling and strewing flowers..." 

                                                -Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Poor, dear, silly Spring....preparing her annual surprise!" 

                             -Wallace Stevens

"Tra, la la la la...Spring is in the air. I'm a flower ...." 

                                                                           -Slim ( from  "A Bug's Life")

"Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only ONE of its instruments, not the composer...."

                                                         -Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

                 "With fronds like these, who needs anenomes? "  

"Slime is the key to happiness, one squish at a time....

                                 -Unknown

 Photographs 2025

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle wonderful" - e.e. cummings

BEFORE the RAIN by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)

We knew it would rain, for all the morn

(Nom Nom looking in door every morning)

A spirit on slender ropes of mist

Was lowering its golden buckets down 

Into the vapory amethyst.

Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens

                                                                                          (*a "fen" is a wasteland ecosystem)

Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers

Dipping the jewels out of the sea

To sprinkle them over the land in showers.

We knew it would rain

For the Poplars showed the white of their leaves

The amber grain shrunk in the wind

And the lightning now...........

Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain................

                                     ".....Learning to dance in the rain..." -Vivian Greene

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle wonderful...." - e.e. cummings

Photographs 2025 

 *Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American editor of the Atlantic monthly,  writer, poet and critic.

MARCH in the NORTH ISLAND....

ON A MARCH DAY (1918) by Sara Teasdale 

( Reflection from post WW 1, appreciation of life and nature, and the hope of spring and new life...)

Here in the teeth of this triumphant wind

That shakes the naked shadows on the ground

Making a keyboard of the earth to strike

From clattering tree and hedge a separate sound

Bear witness to me that I love my life

All things that hurt me and all things that healed

And that I swore it this day in March

Here at the edge ...

of this new-broken field

 You only knew me

...tell them I was glad

For every hour 

since my birth....

And that I ceased to fear

................as once I feared

The last complete reunion with earth.....

    "Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.." 

                                                                  -Virgil A. Kraft

Photographs 2025.  Campbell River, BC, Canada