Spring Dreams

Well, the desperate need I had for a radical change last week has passed. It was a combination of many things, not the least of which was a strong primal fight or flight response to a personal crisis. Combine that with SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), which comes from living in an area with long cold winters and little sunlight for months on end, and you have an ugly situation. Wisconsin isn't even as cold, snowy and cloudy as many places, but I can see that most other people around here are eager for Spring, too. There's an impatient energy in the air. You can almost reach out and touch it.

I did rename my other blog, though. It's now called Bleeding Heart Studio. I'm still planning to use it to focus on environmental folk art, but I'll be doing lots of other things there, too. Right now I've got so many ideas, I don't know where to start. And every time I sit down, our 15 pound cat jumps on my lap, my legs go numb and the dog decides he absolutely must go out. (This is happening as I write this, too.) We're all ready for Spring!

I was hoping to welcome Spring on March 1, rather than March 21, with a bouquet of flowers, but it's been too cold to buy any. And the bouquets I saw looked either too limp or too artificial, so I decided to share a photo from last June of a bouquet and a fresh fruit tart which I made for a weekend treat. The bouquet was a mix of florist's flowers and peonies and early wildflowers from the garden. It looked, and smelled, beautiful!

When the ice melts in our garden, I'll start looking for the crocuses that pop their little heads through the snow in early Spring. I plan to take a picture of them before the rabbits find them and eat them to the ground. Those first tender young plants must taste so good to the rabbits after a long, cold winter. I often wonder where all the animals find food and shelter to get them through until Spring.

Next Sunday is the beginning of daylight savings time already (can you believe it?), so Spring isn't too far away, even for us. :)