It's Gonna be a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes

 

It's Gonna be a Lovely Day.

Consider This

 

 

 

We are broken.

 

But guess what?

 

All you have to do is look out your window

 

or 

 

be even more daring:

 

go outside 

 

and 

 

examine the flowers of the field.

 

 

 

For most of us, the landscape is barely

 

waking up 

 

from a long death

 

yet your eyes do not deceive you.

 

Life rises again.

 

 

 

If the flower that falls 

 

and 

 

blooms again in such splendor 

 

can ecstatically shout 

Hallelujah

 

then 

 

so can I.

 

Life will rise again.

 

Happy Easter.

 

Look What the Wind Blew in

 

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Les Dames D'abord

Fly Away

 If you could 

 

Fly Away

 

where would you land?

 

I think I'd breeze over 

 

The Netherlands

 

where 

 

tulips gather in harmony

 

 

and call on the daffodils

 

to

 

come out and play.

 

 Fly Away.

 

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Les Dames D'Abord

 

Breathe

 

 

 

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Surprise

 

 

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Les Dames D'Abord

 

Thaw

 

 

H a l l e l u j a h

 

and thank heaven

 

that

 

t h e   t h a w 

 

is  coming.

 

 

Thank heaven 

 

that 

 

with every drip

of 

 

January's grip

that

 

February's love

 

is 

 

revealed.

 

Soon

your joy 

 

will spill out from golden vessels 

 

of gratitude

 

and 

 

overflow to others

 

and fill their cups.

 

 

But we know that winter will return

yet we cultivate and nourish

with 

 

seeds of praise.

H a l l e l u j a h .

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Thoughts

How Do You Graciously Say Good-bye

 

to someone you love 

but who's

out-stayed their welcome?

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 With flowers, of course.

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 Because

now it's time to prepare

for 

a new house guest

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whose arrival is extolled on every 

street corner

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and in every 

celestial - earthly place.

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Preparations are intense

as we greet the most fleeting

yet most 

profound season

that comes 

THEN

in the blink

of

a heart beat

takes 

your breath away.

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The First Kiss

from a Minnesota January

is 

slow and still.

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However

the ambiance slightly changes

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when I decide I'm simply going to

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and illuminate the barren landscape

as I wait

to be embraced by the caress of spring

and the heat 

of summer's passions.

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Be kissed by a rose. 

Follow my Instagram page Les Dames D'abord to see my progress 

with my new camera. Cards and prints to be available later this year.