Thank you, Frank for hosting #WQWWC this week. Thank you Amy Rose for your beautiful photos for his post. Here are my quotes and responses for the week.

“Spring is the time of the year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade”

Charles Dickens
#WQWWC Spring Rose Woodlake Botanical Gardens
Spring rose bush half in shade, have in sun

Spring

Traditional 5-7-5 Cinquain

Just the right amount
of shade and sun caressing
perfect yellow rose 

“You are reborn with the roses, in every spring.”

Juan Ramón Jiménez
#WQWWC  Spring Roses from Woodlake Rose Garden

Roses, the Voices of spring

Traditional 5-7-5 Cinquain

Gentle rays of light
Kiss roses' pink golden cheeks
Drying tears of spring
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Please join me again next Wednesday for #WQWWC #17: Leisure. Check out my #WQWWC page for upcoming topics.

40 responses to “#Writer’s Quotes Wednesdays #16: Spring”

  1. Happy spring, Marsha!

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    1. Happy spring to you my friend. 🙂

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      1. Thanks, Marsha. It’s autumn, or should be, down here. 🙂

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        1. Right. I forget you not right next door.

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  2. Such beautiful roses.

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    1. Thank you, Rupali. When I lived in Woodlake, California, a small rural town in the center of CA, I volunteered in the Woodlake Rose Garden. I love roses and each bush requires about 90 hours of care per year. There are over 1500 roses, so you can imagine that a small town can’t do it on it’s own. Our Kiwanis group organized a way for us and other service organizations to help care for the roses. It was a huge task, but I think it is finally organized. I am going back there in April or May to see the blooms, so I’ll take lots of pictures. 🙂 Thanks for your response! This was kind of an overkill response to you!

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  3. Spring always takes a little longer to get here.. 😉

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    1. After seeing all your snow, it doesn’t surprise me. It seems like it is taking a while here because we are used to spring starting in February in CA.

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  4. We were on the same wavelength. I almost choice the Dickens quote too! Thinking it would be shared, I used Emerson. LOL! The photos are are gorgeous and work perfectly for the quote. 🙂

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    1. Lisa … thanks for visiting at my end. 🙂

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    2. Thanks, Lisa. Funny how our minds are working. 🙂

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  5. Lovely poems and beautiful photos!

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    1. Thank you so much Eugenia. 🙂

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      1. My pleasure, Marsha.

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    1. Thank you Donna. 🙂

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    1. Thanks One Hundred. Spring is beautiful no matter where it is. 🙂

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  6. Perfect quote from Mark Twain, Marsha! I bet you get the daily dose of that changeable weather! Gorgeous roses!!

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      1. Thanks, Terri. 🙂

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    1. Mark Twain? Well, we are getting some ups and downs in our weather patterns. Today we walked with just a light sweater on and Vince had on a shirt over his t-shirt. It was 62. That’s part of what is nice about spring – change – transitions. 🙂

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      1. Oops, Charles Dickens, lol! Transitions sounds like a great idea for a SS theme!

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        1. It’s perfect for the time of year and time of life. 🙂 You could link it to your articles on retirement. 🙂

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          1. Thanks for the reminder for an April theme!

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          2. What a fun chat, this morning. I am excited about the two topics I’m going to do for SS. I’m finding lots of kitten pictures as I work through my pictures and get them organized. 🙂

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  7. Such lovely roses! And words so well matched with them.

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  8. OMG … look at the size of those roses! WOW!!!! … Love the poems and the pictures.

    Hey readers – come on over to take a walk on my friendly beach … and don’t forget to link a post to it as a pingback or paste a link in the comment.

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    1. Thanks, Frank! let’s beach walk! 🙂

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  9. Beautiful poem and WOW, that picture! ❤️👏👏👏💖💖

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    1. Cindy … thanks for visiting both Marsha and me.

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      1. Hi Cindy. You are such a sweetie. Thanks for stopping by both our blogs. 🙂

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    2. Thank you so much, Cindy! 🙂

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  10. Woww Marsha..what a combination of that rose and white color👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

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