Two SiSters Mary Thoughts for the Day ~ April

 

"And Spring arose on the garden fair

Like the Spirit of LoVe felt everywhere;

And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast

rose from the dreams of its wintry rest."

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Sensitive Plant 

"It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want ~oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your Heart ache, you want it so!"
~ Mark Twain

"April hath put a spirit of youth in everything."
~ Shakespeare

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"Flora is the Roman Goddess of flowering plants, especially those that bear fruit. 
Spring, of course, Is Her season, and She has elements of a LoVe GoDDess,
With its attentdant attributes of Fertility, Sex, and BLoSSoMing. She is quite ancient; the Sabines are said to have named a month for Her {which corresponds to ours and the Romans}
~ April
 

"Just sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes,
 and the grass grows by itself."
 ~ Zenrin poem

"I stuck My head out the window this morning
 and Spring kissed Me bang in the face."
 ~ Langston Hughes

"I want to do to you what Spring does with Cherry trees."
~ Pablo Neruda

"The pedigree of Honey does not concern the Bee, a Clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy."
~ Emily Dickinson

  

Lotus card from Power of Flowers Tarot Deck by Isha Lerner
{also the creator of Inner Child deck which is my all time favorite deck}

Dancing Bears by William Beard

Shakespeare calendar cover from Maryland Shakespeare

Flora detail from Primavera by Botticelli

Grass

Dandelions picture by Henryk T. Kaiser

VJ Day, The Kiss by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Cherry Trees at Night by Thomas Lamb