Thursday, March 27, 2014

Images of a Mountain Spring

I think I can easily say that Spring has always been my favorite season of all. Spring is very sensual, fresh, and brimming with life.. As a child of the East Tennessee mountains I have so many rich images of this special time of the year. Please allow me to take you there as I reminisce through my images of springs from my childhood on a 65 acre Appalachian farm.
  • wet, slick, shivering, wobbly, newborn calves
  • fragrant pink apple blossoms
  • defiant yellow dandelions dotting our yard
  • the color of green everywhere, so green you can smell its fragrance
  • animals mating all over the place
  • washing windows to remove the last evidence of winter and fall
  • mending broken fences so the newborn calves and their moms will stay nearby
  • wild green onions doting the landscape and milk that is undrinkable from the smell
  • newly sprouted lettuce beds covered with canvas to protect them from late frosts
  • newly hatched, fluffy, yellow baby chicks following mama hen
  • muddy, flooded creeks and rivers overflowing their banks
  • wild creasy greens just waiting to be picked, cooked and enjoyed
  • the smell of newly plowed soil
  • creek baptisms with shivering girls in white dresses pinned around their legs
  • the sound of "Morning Has Broken"
  • black patent leather shoes and white socks
  • the smell of freshly burned tobacco beds now waiting to be sown
  • the feel of cold dirt under your feet; dirt not yet warmed by the spring sunshine
  • the linger of cold Northern winds that chill you to the bone
  • multi-colored pastel Easter eggs
  • ducks on the pond with their young ducklings
  • the smell of a freshly cut lawn

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