Blossoming

If you and I are to see anything of the freshness and loveliness of this season, hear anything of the music out of doors, catch anything of the thrill and wonder and joy of this magic time-

Well, the sooner the better!

Gardens and lanes, fields and woods and murmuring streams are all luring us out of doors at the moment.  There are birds and trees and flowers to delight us.  Maybe we are so very busy we simply cannot spare an evening for a walk in the country.  But if by any chance we can walk into wonderland-

let's do so before the freshness goes.

~Francis Gay, The Friendship Book, 1961