First Signs of Spring

After the storm, comes the first signs of spring. On mornings like this I feel so rich. I walked and I could smell the warming earth, the hint of blossoms on the wind, and my soil in my pasture of mostly diamonds. As the sun peaked over the top of Bear Mountain, and it's first ray's hit the ground, that was when all of the diamonds glittered in the early morning air.

I know this isn't a very good picture, I only had a second to snap it as this little flock of Canadian Geese flew over. I heard them before I saw them. I could hear the distant cries and then the sound of their wings. They were flying south. I have never saw them flying in that direction before.

Today this green plum will open it's blooms. I was thinking this morning. We had wind this week, and we have had rain and this morning frost. The wind causes the limbs on the tree to blow and move,the ground has been warming up long before I knew it, so the sap has began to thin. We had the rain that brings nourishment to the soil and then the frost, that helps the bud break the hard shell to bloom.
I can't help to see how trials in our life do the same, it is only when my hard shell is broken that I can bloom and be all that I was created to be.

This is the blooms on an Acacia tree. It is the first thing to bloom here at My Field of Dreams. In the Bible when God gave Moses the plans for the Tabernacle, lots of the wood they used was from the Acacia tree. It is very hard wood. The bark is twisty and very hard. When it dries it is very hard to cut. When we moved here I wanted all of the trees to be from the Bible. 

Moses brother Aaron had a staff that budded, and is in the Ark of the Covenant somewhere with the tablets of the Ten Commandments and the jar of Manna, I thought today as I looked at this almond tree, that staff that Aaron used was made of almond wood just like this and this is how it must of looked when it had buds.

 This is a Red Tailed Flicker. This is the first year it returned without it's mate. It shows up about late October and will stay until about May. In the fall I always hear it before I see it. It's cry is like that of the Sharp-Shinned Hawk. I mistake that call all of the time.
This morning, in the cold, I could hear the Meadow Larks singing the sun to come up. They remind me of the places of long ago that live only in my mind. I am glad that spring is coming, I am glad that the seasons change and I am glad that the sun shines.
I am glad that joy comes in the morning.

Have a lovely Thursday, thanks for coming along on my walk this morning. Yes, these pictures are from today.I finally didn't have to go back into my other pictures to find flowers. :)
~Kim~