Saturday, March 20, 2021

Springs of yesterday

 Happy Ostara...the day the earth stands on it's poles directly vertical to it's orbit, and  equal days of sunshine and dark.


The Brandford Pear in the bank parking lot.

These Lenten Roses bloomed throughout wintertime.

Another blog published this lovely video of streets of yesteryear, with beautiful music, and then just to make a threefold presentation, a Rumi poem being recited over it all. I had to watch it twice in a row, it was such an enjoyable experience.


Sharing this with Sepia Saturday this week...the video is definitely sepia!


25 comments:

  1. Hello,
    The spring blossoms are so pretty. I love the Lenten Roses, I wish I had some growing in my yard. Take care, enjoy your day! Happy weekend!

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    1. Thanks so much Eileen. Hope you have a great weekend.

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  2. ...spring has arrived here, but we are quite a bit behind you. Enjoy your day.

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  3. Happy Equinox, but I have to be that guy, the one to inform you that you are wrong about the verticality of the earth. There is always a tilt, but the sun does hit the equator directly today. Think of the tilt as being sideways, with neither pole pointing toward to sun. https://twitter.com/NWSChicago/status/1373206939576934407?s=20

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  4. I have Lenten Roses at my lakehouse. They should be really showy about now and I'm missing it!

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  5. Happy Spring Equinox!

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  6. Happy Spring! I had never heard of Lenten roses, so I had to look them up. I'm sure I've seen them, just not known their name. (typical of me)

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    1. Heliobore, or something like that, is the other name they go by.

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  7. Happy Spring! Love the Bradford Pear tree blossoms, they're beautiful.

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    1. These strange trees are totally ornamental. You'd think they would at least have real pears!

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  8. Happy Vernal Equinox! It seems like it's been a long time coming!

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    1. It certainly has felt like the slowest spring of my lifetime.

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  9. I love the burst of spring. I enjoyed the nostalgic video, but "he" can leave of his own accord. He's in a cage of his own making methinks.

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    1. Ah Rumi and his love. Yes, a bit different when you think about it too long.

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  10. Lovely spring pictures. Happy First Day of Spring! The poem is a bit sad for a sunny spring day, but I'm pretty sure I recognized we were traveling down Market Street in San Francisco heading for the Ferry Building and the bay. :)

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    1. I haven't ever gone down that street, but it had been identified for me once before.

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  11. Thanks for the RUMI piece. Quite wonderful.

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  12. I second what David said about the Rumi poem. And I always enjoy that video of the traffic from long ago. Your header photo is just beautiful! We have daffs and forsythia here in Louisville KY - and buds on the trees! Happy Spring!

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  13. Hard to tell that it is spring in Florida. The seasonal changes are very slight.

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  14. I see we are both enjoying this fine WNC mountain spring. It's sprouting up in Asheville too. Your video poem is using a famous film made in 1906 by two brothers, Harry and Joseph Miles, of a streetcar ride down Market St. in San Francisco. It was filmed on April 21, just four days before the Great Earthquake. I featured it in my story from March 2013, "The Great Luigi D'Urbano and his Royal Italian Band."

    The brothers made a second film, just like the first, of the devastation after the quake, which I included in my story because the bandleader of the Royal Italian Band, has a connection to San Francisco in 1906.

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