What We Do

I'm joining with 
WORDS FOR WEDNESDAY

Mark Koopmans has generously offered 3 sets of prompts
I'm using 2 sets in Italic blue.



What we do in Minnesota 

when Mother Nature toys with us.

Many Minnesotans fly to a warmer Disney location, and text silly emojis to those back home.  I'd say in this old family photo we're each
one of a kind fashionista 
all living it up, while the folks back home
 are languishing bitter wind chills
 and loading up their morning carpool to slug
along in rush hour traffic.



Normally, this time of year,
if you're not off to Trinidad for a delicious Trinidad Bratwurst seen here,
you might wallow in spongy mud on your knees planting seeds 
and setting a spindle garden angel or gnome in place, for good luck.

Or, maybe you're off to Victoria's Secret for summer jammies 

 and buying a new umbrella since April usually leaves us
 watered seasonably 
by spring showers.

(I seriously think we had warmer days last winter than we're having this spring. Silly right?)

Oddly enough, we've had a couple of 90 degrees days this spring and folks hit the beach.

Only to put their winter coats back on two days later.

What!

Cover your new plantings and growths 
we've got another frost warning for tonight.

Truly not a ghost, just one example of coverage against

 the harsh touch of Mother Nature.

"Come with me into the woods

where spring is advancing

as it does, no matter what

not being singular or particular

but one of the forever gifts,

and certainly visible."

Mary Oliver 

Or, take a stroll along a Minneapolis avenue 
and capture some dancing statues.

"To pay attention this is our endless and proper work.

Instructions for living a life.

Pay attention.

Be astonished.

Tell about it."

Mary Oliver

"Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable."

Mary Oliver

This post from May 17th 2014 says it all.

"And I say to my heart: rave on."

Mary Oliver

So, how is your spring going so far this year?