I seriously think we are SPRUNG!

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation...... Alan Cohen

  

Spring...

Aussies can mark the first day of spring today by tiptoeing through the tulips, as the island shakes off the winter chill and bursts into life with flower blooms in brilliant colour.

Pretty purple blossoms on the hill

Although we have had warm hints of spring in the past couple of weeks, today is officially the first day of the season.

Some argue that spring doesn't actually begin until the equinox, on September 23, but Bureau of Meteorology and climatology say this is the farewell of winter for 2011.

This Spring, marks the first entire season that I am no longer considered a mother,  spring is a time traditionally when birth occurs and new life!  I had given birth myself  to my son in Spring.  It was the lovliest time.  I time that I will never ever forget.   Now,  I am in my own personal winter  no matter what the season outside is saying to others. 

I will look at the flowers and try to find the true beauty there and not look at the false humanity that is ever so close to me.  I will pray for a swift end to my winter.

Image by Mezza - Spring flowers in bloom on the hill in Morgo street.