PETALS

@ Chicago Botanic Garden
Glencoe, IL

Blooms! Now, this is what spring is all about! I have had many trips to the Chicago Botanic Gardens, but this is my first time to visit the gardens in the spring. The gardens never fail to overwhelm and enchant. I was drawn. Colors are everywhere. The scent of flora sweet. The sound of bees buzzing. And yes, cameras 'clicking'. This is a photographer's paradise.

Behold! The beauty of spring!

THE PINK OF SPRING

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” 
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“When the groundhog casts his shadow 
And the small birds sing 
And the pussywillows happen 
And the sun shines warm 
And when the peepers peep 
Then it is Spring” 
― Margaret Wise Brown