English Spring

The leaves are beginning to green the trees, and flowers are popping up all over the countryside.  Still wearing a coat to block the chilly wind, but it finally feels like Spring!


These lovely blooms were a breath of Spring in a quiet churchyard along the River Kennet in Reading. 

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. 

These are but trifles, to be sure; 

but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.  

 Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)