Yesterday was a day of wind and showers.  These days of mid spring are fleeting and I did not want to delay taking pictures of flowers that I noticed in the neighborhood.  I did my best given the wind to capture pictures of blooms along a white picket fence around the yard next door.  Certainly they (the flowers and the neighbor) did not mind that I made a slightly more permanent memory of the ephemeral beauty of this spring?  Here are the photographs.  The last two in the series were taken at a nearby park, wild flowers in bloom and a Momma bird resting patiently on the nest, waiting for the propitious arrival of new life.  The Daddy bird, close at hand in the tree was making a noise, no doubt because a strange biped mammal was too close under the tree.

 

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How about a tune to carry us through the day!  This one is a anthem of resistance and of triumph.  Friendships, close relationships are difficult.  Friction is inevitable, two individuals bearing the marks of different histories, attempt to make a common history.  Perhaps that is the ultimate art-form?! Difficult, time consuming, worthwhile…..

Lyrics composed by Nelson Prince Rogers