a little birdie told me so: My Favorite time of the Year is Here

Saturday, March 29, 2014

My Favorite time of the Year is Here

It may be chilly and overcast today, but it is still my favorite time of the year.

6 comments:

Lisa at GreenbowMarch 29, 2014 at 6:32 PM
Your flowers etc are way ahead of here. It gives me hope seeing your shrubs etc blooming. Happy spring.
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Betsy BrockMarch 30, 2014 at 9:04 AM
we aren't quite there yet...we still have snow on the ground! ha. Enjoy!
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papel1March 30, 2014 at 11:27 AM
I love Spring too. We have showers off and on but the grass and weeds are growing along with the wild flowers. Today the sun is out and I plan on sitting outside in fenced area and also taking a few walks with the dog.
Judy
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DebbyApril 5, 2014 at 8:43 AM
We got snow last night. If I did not have 57 years of watching spring follow winter, I would have doubts that we would get a spring at all. I saw a patch of snowdrops in front of the neighbor's house and I was so grateful for them I was tempted to fling myself facedown in them.
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RNSANEApril 22, 2014 at 12:04 AM
It is a lovely time in northern California, too. My sweet granddaughter just celebrated her first birthday and I'm glad I was home for that. Will probably head back to India, though, in a couple of months. It is much more affordable on my pension than living here.
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iHannaApril 28, 2014 at 10:17 AM
Beautiful photos of beautiful flowers!
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...."We were Birds Without Wings. You were a robin and I was a blackbird. And there were some who were eagles or vultures or pretty gold finches, but none of us had wings. For birds with wings nothing changes. They fly where they will and they know nothing about borders and their quarrels are very small. But we are always confined to earth, no matter how much we climb to the high places and flap our arms. Because we cannot fly we are condemned to do things that do not agree with us. Because we have no wings we are pushed into struggles and abominations that we did not seek and then after all that, the years go by. The mountains are leveled. The valleys rise. The rivers are blocked by sand and the cliffs fall into the sea." -Louis De Berniere

Who Said It First?

The phrase "little birdie told me so" may find it's origins in this Bible verse. "Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because a bird of the air may carry your words, and a bird on the wing may report what you say" (Ecclesiastes 10:20). The earliest form of the saying was included in John Heywood's collection of proverbs (1546). In 1583, Brian Melbancke wrote in 'Philotimus'" 'I had a little bird, that brought me newes of it.' In 1711, in 'Letter to Stella,' Jonathan Swift came close to the current version: 'I heard a little bird say so.'