May 2, 2014
The world is green again. Chatter says she’s never seen it so green and lush. I told her I feel like that every spring-once the green arrives it’s like a tonic for your body and soul.
Tipper
Appalachia Through My Eyes – A series of photographs from my life in Southern Appalachia.
All the great comments about burning the garden made me think of a few old sayings about fire things like:…
Chitter snapped this picture out her bedroom window. Mr. Cottontail stayed there for so long, prancing back and forth, that…
“He lives in a big fine house up in that new development” is a sentence you might have heard in…
Pap was born in 1937. He spent the first years of his life on the Harshaw Farm. Pap’s father, Wade,…
The Pressley Girls point blank got to quit carrying their instruments around upside down! point blank A variant forms pime…
When I go to a homecoming or dinner on the grounds I always keep an eye out for Three Bean…
I could be color-blind, but that beautiful woods scene looks more purple than green.
Same thing here. The Tiger Lilies are about a foot high but not budding yet, the purple Clematis is almost head high and gorgeous, and the roses are all in bloom – all in about a week too.
God bless.
RB
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Tipper,
How I love the green. The color of green is peaceful and a hope giving color. After our first itty bitty splash last week, the next morning you would have thunk it had rained buckets. We need rain still here where we live. The rain we got this week helped and the leaves are huge and green. We are having blackberry winter here, I think, because i saw blackberries blooming near the edge of the woods and garden.
My son suprised me with strawberries from Spring City, Tn. They had a little water in them, but they sure were good. I suspect by next week with the heat and dry they will ripen to their delishous self…can’t wait!
Question to all: Does anyone know where I can purchase that new canning machine? I have a glass top stove and this machine sits on the counter and you can process in it the same size run that does the regular pressure cooker. I think it is made by Ball corporation…not sure. I have been scared to stay on this thing too long since the bad old virus hit the computers…I updated more today but not sure that helps and I sure dread changing browsers….At anyrate if someone knows where I can order on let Tipper know so she can pass it on!
Thanks Tipper,
Happy Happy Saturday evening!
Ah! Such a beautiful site for those of us fortunate to have our vision. I love spring, when the green comes out. You are so right. I am enjoying every bit of the new green I see each day, espeically the trees and flowers.
Tipper,
I love the changing seasons. The Good
Lord sure knew what He was doing!
Looking forward to the Appalachian
Celebration tomorrow…Ken
tipper i agree.. and with the rough winter we all had.. it truly is a sight to behold.. all the lilac trees budding… forsythia, bulbs.. ahhhh the new rebirth of life.. much love to you and yours… may your corner of the world be peaceful and full of love
big ladybug hugs
lynn
I want to be there!!!!!!!
When I complained to a neighbor from California about how much rain we have had, he told me how lucky we are to have the rain make all this beautiful green vegetation. He had spent twenty some years looking at concrete and brown landscape. Sometimes we take things for granted and don’t appreciate them enough.
Tipper, Your statements about how “green” things are this spring and Chatter’s comment, prompted me to write a little verse after reading (complete with foootnotes giving you credit!) Here it is, and thank you for the inspiration:
Green Bursts Forth
“For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
He has made everything beautiful in its time.”
-Ecclesiastes 3:1, 11 (ESV)
“The world is green again.”
“Never before as green and lush.”
“A tonic for the body and soul!”
Winter’s dun gone in green morning hush!
So the cycles of nature
Move in and out in time,
Ordered, purposeful, brilliant,
Captured in nature, (told in rhyme!).
So has it been since time began,
Bold nature in its cycles sure,
“For everything there is a season,”
God, Creator of all, the good, the pure
Allows us to dwell on earth and see
The bursting forth of green,
Renewal after dormancy,
More than we can know or can be seen!
-Ethelene Dyer Jones
May 2, 2014
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1. Mary Jane “Tipper” Pressley. “Blind Pig and the Acorn” blogspot. May 2, 2014.
2. Chatter Pressley. Ibid.
3. Mary Jane “Tipper” Pressley. Ibid.
4. Ecclesiastes 3:1.
God has pushed the ↻ button!
When the fall leaves fell last year and my wife was looking at spending her first winter out of perpetually-green south Florida, I told her that the winter gray would just make the spring that much more vibrant when it came. She agrees. We are really greening up well here in Brevard, NC. To add to that, the Dogwoods, Redbuds, and now Frazer Magnolias have thrown their splashes of color into the green. It won’t be long before the Rhododendrons and Mountain Laurels will chime in.
Tipper:
I agree with Chatter. Never have I seen such a beautiful Spring! Just now I HAD THE SAME THOUGHTS – as I looked out my kitchen window and saw the Witch Hazel. It is TOTALLY leafed out. The other shrubs look like they are bigger than ever. I do believe that SPRING HAS SPRUNG!
Beautiful morning!
Eva Nell
I agree with Chatter, it is really green this year, but then I guess I always say that. I am always so happy to see the green arrive in the spring. It represents hope and returning life and I’m always happy to see it following the barren winters.
I’ll see you at the Appalachian Celebration!
I love spring in the mountains
The spring is a joyous arrival, truly a Blessing from God.. yall remember those whose homes were destroyed this week and the families of those who lost a love one, spring will never be the same for them….