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Spring Pops!

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 0:26

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Oh, how I love these showery, flowery days.

when the rainbow ends in a pot of gold.

The Forsythia has gone by now, all green leaves and laggard blossoms. When it goes, the roses grow. I cut them back early this year, and they’re beginning to bounce back from the horrible winter of 2013. Worried that I’ve finally lost Rio Samba, but I worry that every single spring, and she always surprises me.

Sometimes the rainbow ends on a real pot of gold. That would be Chet Baker.

I don’t know that he’s a pot of gold. He’s a pot of somethin’. I’ve been reading some news stories lately about how people get a little squirt of oxytocin, the “love hormone,” when they gaze into their dog’s eyes. And the dog gets a little squirt too, and they both feel all gooey and good.

I call Chet Baker “Oxytocin Ocean.”

The spring sky is pregnant mostly all the time. These stunning ranked Stratocumulus undulatus were much better in person.

I adore spring and fall for their dramatic light. You must run out quickly to catch it when it happens.

Our ancient pear, busting out with a rainbow chaser.

I cannot stay inside on days like this. Come on, Chet. Let’s go!

In the driveway bluebird box, the first two treasures.

I go to visit my girlfriends, just putting on their spring formals, dancing in anticipation.

In the Hendershot box, two more. As I write, she’s begun incubating with the third egg on April 18. I see her little face peeking out every time I go by. I get Easter eggs all summer long.

And even though nobody’s there to appreciate it but me, the old farmstead is abloom, alight with white spirea, pink peaches and quince, gold forsythia, narcissus and daffodils.

The living legacy of settlers long gone blooms on.

I dream of living here, so far away from everything. Not in this house, though. I’d leave it to the squirrels and raccoons and rat snakes.

Too bad about the dang telephone pole. I like this angle, though, with the pheasant’s eye narcissus smelling so sweet, the golden forsythia growing wild in back.

On this day it was so warm I caught myself in an accidental upside-down selfie without my shirt. Sports bra’s good enough for a 70-degree day and deserted dirt roads. My favorite kind.

Everywhere, American shad lights up the forest with its white candles. Where’s Waldo? The tiny black dot on up ahead.

And a minuscule red eft crosses a gravel road. The smallest I’ve ever found. This photo is about life size.
I carried him the way he was headed, to a damp ditch. The Deus ex Machina he’ll tell his little larval kids about, the hand that reached down from the sky to sweep him to safety.

Who knows how far he’s already come, and how far he’ll travel this year?

He’s looking for something. Someplace different than where he’s been. I don’t know how I see them, but I seem to run into them all the time. Maybe because we’re both on a quest.

But no great big benevolent hand is going to pick me up and carry me across. I have to get there all by myself.

Julie Zickefoose is a painter and writer who lives on a nature sanctuary in Appalachian Ohio. She is the author of Letters from Eden and The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds With Common Birds, due in spring 2012. http://juliezickefoose.blogspot.com

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