The soft, Spring rain....bringing showers for May flowers....

Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"

 I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. ~Emma Goldman

Soon fresh flowers on the table...the scent in the air....

 ooh BBQ's coming ...family and friends gather.....

 Nighttime outdoors in the Spring...chilly but oh so lovely......*

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling, and breathe forth their sweetest odours. Flow forth, ye perfumes of my heart, and seek beyond these mountains the dear one of my dreams! ~Heinrich Heine, "The Hartz Journey" (1824), Pictures of Travel, translated from German by Charles Godfrey Leland, 1855