Dear Zinnia friends,
It is with great hope and a light heart that I welcome the longer days of spring. In my garden bunnies are cavorting, birds, like old friends have returned from their places of winter refuge. The heady fragrance of daphne odora drifts indoors when I open the windows to welcome in the fresh, spring air. It is my favorite time of year, when somehow all things seem possible.
I have not forgotten that in the thick of giving care, spring can manage to slip past unnoticed. Who has time for birds, bunnies and flowers when life is presenting challenges at every turn? At Zinnia, we are here for you. If spring flowers are not blooming just outside your front door, we bring you plenty of springtime to enjoy when you’re able in our Nature channel. Spring flowers, Tree blossoms, Life of the Butterfly. Sit with someone you love and marvel together at the beauty of spring. Maybe watching a Zinnia video will inspire you to get outdoors and look for signs of spring in your own neighborhood.
Take good care! And if you’re so inclined, enjoy reading aloud a poem about spring by Robert Frost.
By Robert Frost
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.
For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfil.
