Spring is in the Air..

Spring is my favorite season, mostly because of all the new life in the natural world......but also because of the flowers, a soft breeze carrying the smell of the rain and the sounds of children and laughter sneaking through my screen windows....I shot off a few pictures at Kittatinny Valley State Park in Andover, NJ the other day.

There is so much life in the forest......

And in the trees.....

From Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses"

Come up here, O dusty feet!

Here is fairy bread to eat.

Here in my retiring room,

Children, you may dine

On the golden smell of broom

And the shade of pine;

And when you have eaten well,

Fairy stories hear and tell.