First Day of Spring

The first day of spring is here! The bees are buzzing on blooms, the asparagus is sprouting upwards, Benny the cat is rolling in the garden beds, and Sam the Border Collie is a overseeing it all.
Spring is by far my favorite season. When I was a little girl, Mama always sewed a new dress from me from seersucker fabric - the quintessential spring fabric in pastel stripes.

A new seersucker dress and my freshly-washed white Keds and I was always ready for spring. Mama and Daddy grew beautiful roses and Mama specialized in sweet peas. Oh, how I loved the smell of sweet peas and the colors! One whole side of our house was a flower bed of sweet peas each spring. Daylilies, amaryllis, and shrimp plants made up the front beds!

Spring, growing up in my hometown meant Easter time with a new outfit, complete with hat and matching purse! There was no Easter Parade, but there was a parade of women and girls arriving at the Methodist Church on Easter morning to show off their new duds!

Spring meant ballet recitals from ages 4 to 18 and Hi Jinx Social Club spring dances in high school. Both occasions meant fancy costumes and dresses, all sewn by Mama!

Spring from college all the way into my 40's meant SPRING BREAK! As a student and a teacher, I returned to Mama and Daddy's house to spend my Spring Break. Those were wonderful visits, full of laughter, love, and fried shrimp in Mama's kitchen!

Springtime in Houston was a mixed bag. There was gardening to do with flower beds, window boxes, and vegetable beds. There were dances to chaperone at the junior high where I taught. However, there were tornadoes and flooding, as well.

Spring in the Texas Hill Country could also mean tornadoes. Look at me pictured below with our Border Collie, Max, taking shelter in the bathroom during a tornado warning! With spring showers, came wildflowers - all colors of them in our yard - even bluebonnets.

Spring has sprung!

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