Everything is Blooming
The Four posted their latest collaborative piece yesterday. As inspiration for their individual photo contributions, they featured this quote by Rainer Maria Rilke: Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. As I watched the bees flit from branch to branch at the tip top of the vine maple outside my second-floor window and caught sight of swallows playing chase in my garden and back to the pond, I remembered thinking yesterday that my side yard looked like a riot of color had erupted all of a sudden. But these rioters don't announce their presence with bullhorns. They don't shriek or even warble into the heart of the night. Instead, they merely whisper: "Spring is here. And I am evidence."