The First Unfolding of Spring
Looking back over my garden photos for this spring, I marveled at the soft and dawn-like quality of most of my early spring flowers. You’ll see in a later post how this gentle color exploded into a prismatic array, but the first glimmers resemble the first, creeping light of dawn.
How fitting the resemblance to the beginning of day! All winter long, I had looked forward to the coming of spring: refreshing the nutrition-weary soil, scouring plant catalogues and checking each growing bud. In truth, some of my spring colors were brilliant and bold–like vermillion, Siberian irises and red anemones–but, overall, the colors were muted yellows, whites and oranges. The spread of blooming flowers looked like the first rays of the sun, spreading over the green and blue horizon.
These brilliant snapdragons foretell the colors which soon followed and jumped rampant around them. But, we’ll look at those later. For now, here’s for the memory of Spring’s first whispering and luminous blooms.
