I like to think that this tree is smiling at me and my family. Its branches wave hello to us as we greet it with our eyes each day. The leaves wink green at us in the breeze and signal ‘go’ for brighter days to come. It’s been a rough week of weather around the country, but still this tree smiles and continues to thrive, growing visibly by the day. And as the longer, brighter days take hold, the sound of my children’s laughter in the garden will ripple across the tree’s boughs and tickle it right down to its roots.
I look at it every morning as I draw back the landing curtains and every evening as I close them. Each trip up and down the stairs, with a basket of laundry or child in hand, is greeted with its unfurling leaves. I wish I’d taken a photograph every day for the past week and put them together in a slide-show as the change from the barren nothing of winter to the virgin green growth of spring is happening so fast.
A smile can come in many guises and this week mine is leafy green with the hope of sunshine on top 🙂
Visit The Gallery at Sticky Fingers for more photographs. This week’s theme is ‘A Smile’.
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oh my friend
I do LOVE the way you write
It’s so lovely to hear of spring somewhere in the world as we slip ever faster into Autumn here, my tomatoes are ripening and the nights are darker, the mornings are cooler.
It makes me smile too, enjoy your spring 🙂
Just so beautifully written as ever….you really have a way with words darling and the pictures capture the awakening of Spring in your beautiful garden just perfectly !!
Love trees and the sentiment of this post!
Ah the hope and promise of spring growing stronger by the day. Aren’t we privileged to be able to watch the seasons changing day by day in nature. This morning we had cherry blossoms floating down onto our car as we drove to work, it was just like being in a delicate snowstorm (if there is such a thing!).
Your tree post certainly made me smile 🙂
That slideshow would have been great… NEXT YEAR!!
You really do have a way with words, Sarah 🙂
xx
Lovely post, very evocative! You’ve made the tree seem like the matriarch of the garden!