โYou can cut all the flowers but you cannot stop spring from coming.โ
โ Pablo Neruda
Another quote to give us hope for Ukraine and the rest of the world. I will donate $1 for every like on this post to help the people of Ukraine.
Featured Bloggers for St. Patricks Day Green
- CEE’S PHOTO CHALLENGES
- KEEP IT ALIVE
- LADY LEE MANILA
- LADY SIGHS
- LOVING LIFE
- NEW 2 WRITING (WRITE PHOTO)
- POETRY, IF NOTHING ELSE
- PRIORHOUSE BLOG
- RAMBLINGS OF A RARING WRITER
- SECOND WIND LEISURE (SUNDAY STILLS)
- TAKE IT EASY
- THIS, THAT, AND THE OTHER THING
- WIND KISSES
ITโS EASY TO PLAY ALONG WITH #WQWWC
This weekly writing challenge runs from Wednesday through Tuesday. The only rule is to use a quote. If you want to participate, create a pingback to link your post. Not sure how to do that? See how to create pingbacks here. Be sure to link to the most recent post, not my page. I donโt see links to my page.
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Check out these early-bird participants. This challenge runs until next Tuesday, and they have some awesome quotes, stories, and pictures.
- KEEP IT ALIVE
- LADY LEE
- LADY SIGHS
- LOVING LIFE
- POETRY, IF NOTHING ELSE
- PRIORHOUSE BLOG
- SECOND WIND LEISURE SUNDAY STILLS Black and White
- SECOND WIND LEISURE SUNDAY STILLS Urban Focus
- TAKE IT EASY
- THIS THAT AND THE OTHER THING
- TOONSARAH TRAVEL WITH ME
My Choices for Spring Equinox
โAll through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.โ
โ E.B. White
DEFINITION: On March 20 or 21st, when the sun crossed the equator. Day and night everywhere on earth were about twelve hours each – hence the term equinox. During the solstices, we get the longest and shortest days. I don’t know about you, but I get them mixed up.
โBehold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!โ
โ Sitting Bull
โSpring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.โ
โ Virgil A. Kraft
For centuries people have celebrated spring equinox also called the vernal equinox. Besides representing the first day of spring, it is a symbol of rebirth, fertility, and new beginnings. Everyone loves a second chance or a do-over, right? What’s not to love about spring? OK allergies, but let’s not go there!
โSpring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.โ
โ Rainer Maria Rilke
By the way, this child now loves writing poems. She is in 8th grade, I think. Her mom called me this week and asked what was new. I told her about our visit from Jack and Monica and said, “My house is spotless. You should come to visit.”
“Okay,” she said.
“No I mean it, you should.”
“OK,” she said again.
“Soon!”
“OK,” she said again.
“Well when?” I asked getting excited.
“Soon,” she said.
Now I was suspicious. “Where are you?”
“Frys in Prescott Valley,” she answered.
“So you’re going to be here in ten minutes.”
“About,” she answered.
The visit was way too short, but we had a fun time walking around downtown and visiting before she and her friend were off to Williams, AZ to ride the train to the Grand Canyon the next day.
Enjoying Spring Cell Pics Past and Present
โWe sat in silence, letting the green in the air heal what it could.โ
โ Erica Bauermeister
Most of these flowers are from California. Can you tell which ones are not? Do you feel you just had a prove you are a human test? LOL All of these are cell phone pics with different phones over the years. All have been processed in Bridge to crop them and make them as crisp and clear as possible.
Cell Pic Spring Fun with Friends
โSpring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’โ
โ Robin Williams
Last week you know if you saw my post “How Do You Make Green Coffee?”, and PPAC Prescott Downtown Art Mural, we had friends who came from CA to visit us. And we partied. I’ve shown many photos from the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM). Here are three more from the MIM and three from Wickenburg outside the Cowboy Museum.
Not to repeat myself, but… All of these are cell phone pics with different phones over the years. All have been processed in Bridge to crop them and make them as crisp and clear as possible.
Challenges Inspiring WQW Today
- Cell Pic Sunday – Most photos taken with an iPhone and altered in Bridge
- CFFC – Metal
- CMMC – Letter D
- FOTD wild flowers in March
- LAPC – Curves
- Sunday Stills – Spring in Black and White
Now it’s your turn.
Share something springy that tickles your love of fresh beginnings, young, spring. Thanks so much for stopping by and having fun with quotes.
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87 responses to “WQW #12: “You Cannot Stop Spring from Coming.””
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Thanks, Terri. I love how you link to so many challenges in one post. You do yourself proud. ๐
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Hi Marsha, hereโs my Post;
https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2022/03/26/spring/
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This is lovely, Sadje.
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Thanks
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You’re so welcome. ๐
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I love everything about this. Spring! New! Animals! The pictures are beautiful and I loved the commentary about your friendโs visit. Iโm sure it was a nice surprise. Donna
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It was so much fun. I know you get a lot of company, too. That’s one of the things I like about living here. It’s a destination. ๐
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Yes. This year we are planning a few more excursions ourselves. More time. But I do love company.
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I bet they come from all over the world judging from where all you have lived and visited. ๐
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Mostly New England . I have lots of family there.
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Our company is all from California. We have some friends coming in tonight. They called us this afternoon.
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Oh gosh. You two are amazing. I need a day. Lol.
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It has turned out that they did not come here, but stayed in a hotel. We had a lovely dinner last night at a new place called Colts. If you love smoked meat – hamburger, chicken, pork, even mac and cheese, it’s amazing. If you’ve ever been to Butterfly Burger in Sedona, it’s similar in taste. Very yummy.
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haven’t been to either. In fact havn’t been that way since the new year.
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I’m afraid my husband and I are restaurant junkies. Any excuse to go out. …
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We love to eat out too. But remember I told you Mr. weight Watcher lives in our house? Lol. Everything is carefully planned. That said, we enjoyed maggianos in Scottsdale last weekend. So good. #PPAC too. Just not enough time in the day.
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True that!
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So many great spring quotes it was hard to choose, but I hope I’ve included at least a couple that are less often quoted: https://www.toonsarah-travels.blog/gallery-inspired-by-spring-blossoms/
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I love the enthusiasm you exude, Sarah. ๐
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Ooo, Marsha, waiting for your PPAC post so that I can post my daily post. ๐ Still almost four hours left until Friday finishes here. Plenty of time…
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Hmm… Now it’s 11 pm already. I’ll post my post and edit in your link later. I do hope all is well and nobody is guest-hosting today instead of you!
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No, just a WP mixup and me too out of it to check.
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So sorry you had to wait so long. I thought I was posting early! LOL ๐
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No problem, Marsha, I was only hoping that all was okay with you. Just a mixup is easy to handle. ๐
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Thank you for your concern. I wanted to schedule it for 8:00 so I at least had a chance to inform the Featured Bloggers. But I got called in before I realized that it had not published. I have a few hours of being off in la la land after anesthesia, so I didn’t think to even check it, until your comment alerted me to the fact something was wrong. ๐ Thanks so much!
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Awesome post, KL. Big plans!
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What a lovely surprise, your friend turning up like that, Marsha. Sounds like a busy time all round.
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It has been busy, and yet I have down days where not much happens like today and still have to stay up till midnight to get all my blog posts and comments in order. I guess I should not stop to read. That’s what did me in. ๐
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What a fun post. Your fun photos really fit in a lot of different categories ๐
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I was super pleased about that. I loved the CMMC the most, though. D fits in everywhere! No daffodils, though. I’m sure I have some somewhere. ๐
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thanks for all the springy photos!
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Excellent. I love the children shots. As noted, monochromes are for winter, color for spring. ๐
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That was Terri’s idea. I was surprised that they looked as good in B&W as they did. The main problem I discovered on my phone is the it doesn’t support Image Compare.
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I really like that compare tool in WordPress. It really makes it fun to compare two photos for whatever reason. Nice job on the Curves challenge.
I am not familiar with the Bridge tool. I should check it out.
Signs of spring are here in our back yard in Buckeye, but with getting ready to move out, we’ve really not had a chance to enjoy the flowers in our own yard. We hope to start our journey back to North Dakota on Sunday night and we still have a lot of things to do before then.
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Wow, that’s soon! Sorry you don’t get to enjoy your flowers. I know how that feels. But the financial freedom will be worth it. Vince is still working on our condo. He’s making progress and has someone coming into help him starting tomorrow. It should be done by Sat. or Sunday. Yay!
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Terrific curves Marsha – and what a clever idea to donate for likes!!! here’s to the arrival of spring. It can never come too soon for me!
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I know! It was super short in CA. Here, it’s a long time coming, it seems, though it is gorgeous today.
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Wonderful photos and hooray for Spring ๐๐
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Thank you Willow! All it needs is a few good poems. I did not have time to write any. It took me until after 1:00 pm to finish the post I usually publish at 9:00 am. Yikes!
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Sometimes it’s takes forever another it just all falls into place ๐๐
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It does take me a long time to do a post, sorry to say. I’m so pokey!
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Pokey? Well your post are always excellent! So being Pokey works ๐
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Thanks, Willow. You are so kind.
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Beautiful quotes and images, Marsha. Thank you so much for featuring my post.
I’ll need to get my thinking hat on for this week. KL โค
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You are welcome. Iโm sure spring will inspire you. ๐ธ๐๐บ๐ท๐๐น๐ผ๐
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I enjoyed your post and photos, Marsha ๐
https://ladyleemanilablog.wordpress.com/2022/03/24/signs-of-spring-quotes/
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Thanks, Lady Lee.
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Marsha, I especially enjoyed your slider photos today, although I prefer the colored side, and the Kraft and Bauermeister quotes. Have you read any of Erica Bauermeister’s books? I’ve read all of them, including her non-fiction book, except for her latest Thanks for linking to my post as well. I’ll have to see what I can come up with for spring.
janet
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I havenโt read them. Thanks for the recommendation. Iโll check them out.
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Fun topic and great post – you weave the challenges in so well.
And so fun to have friends give late notice of being near! My mother used to do that – she’d say she was a few hours away and then came and didn’t have a set date to leave
But that was a long time ago
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It was fun. Mom didnโt need notice but she lived in Oregon and I lived either in CO or CA. When we lived close it was nice.
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Yay, spring has sprung! This is a busy post with which you sure had some good fun, Marsha! You were out and about despite the up and down weather (like ours)! How fun to have s surprise visit (and be ready for company)! I really love your B&Ws and how you showed the difference in image-compare. The image of the cows grazing along the river is stunning in B&W! Great textures in the B&W with Puppy Girl doing her thing. How kind of you to donate $$ on behalf of Ukraine.
I spent three hours cleaning our travel trailer for our upcoming trip. I changed the bedding, swept and vacuumed…then discovered a water leak likely coming from the water heater which we never used. With all the freezing temps we had, Hans thinks a hose cracked. Good thing I got in there. It’s fixable but nerve-wracking! I need a vacation!! Your post gave me an idea for SS Stills’ “urban.” Yay!
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Iโm just getting ready to fund urban pics. Sorry about your leak. You have two homes to maintain!!!!
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At least the new one is cooperating!
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Thank goodness. The word fund was supposed to be find. LOL. Motor homes and trailers are lots of work.
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sounds like you are loving living in AZ. great photo of the daisies and the little girl…
and thank you for your donation to Ukraine…
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It’s less than a drop in the bucket. Maybe if I had 20,000 Instagram followers instead of 100 or so.
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Hooray for Spring! Your photos have captured its arrival brilliantly! ๐
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Thank you, Donna. I’m honored that you think so!
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I enjoyed your quotes…I’ve never heard of the one about the earth being like a child that knows poems. How fun to get a surprise visit. I laughed about the human test…yes, yes I do feel like a human test.
Here’s my link for this week:https://troyerslovinglife.blogspot.com/2022/03/i-ts-another-week-of-writers-quotes.html
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Such great pictures Marsha with your great quotes and those cute faces here. Happy spring.. it’s sure sprung here! ๐๐ป๐ป๐๐
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I bet it is gorgeous! It beautiful today. Yesterday was cold and very windy, so it goes back and forth.
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Hi Marsha. Thank you so much for featuring my post – Iโm pleased you enjoyed it and wanted to share it. A small point: my blogโs web address still contains the original name I began with, but I changed from that when I retired in 2013, as I thought the new name – Take It Easy – was a better reflection of how I hoped my life would be after all those years of corporate drudgery! You said to me that I could feature an older post if it fitted your theme, and you mention that you are looking this week for things which are about fresh beginnings. One of the earlier posts in my Tuesday Tunes series was this one, which I think fits that bill:
https://cliveblogs.wordpress.com/2021/01/26/tuesday-tunes-41-hope-for-the-future/
And whilst I didnโt include the song in that post, Iโm giving you a quote from the song โClosing Time,โ by Semisonic:
โevery new beginning comes from some other beginning’s endโ
I think thatโs quite poetic.
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That is so true. It is very poetic. Thanks for looking to see if anything fit. I will change your name on the featured blogs. It is easy to do. ๐
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Glad you agree. Itโs a good song, too. Thank you for the correction – I doubt if any current readers will recall that earlier incarnation or will have noticed the old name, though, but it avoids any possible confusion ๐
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It’s done. ๐
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Thank you. Very kind of you to put up with my little quirks!
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No worries. Easy fix. ๐
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Clive – that is quite a great line!!
every new beginning comes from some other beginningโs endโ
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An underrated band, in my view, Yvette ๐
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Linked you to WQW this week.
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