spring at home

At night the window is open and once all settles and the light gives up, we scooch down under the duvet with the breeze at our heads. We fall asleep to the nocturnal song of the peeper frogs in the marsh down the cove, earth from the day's weeding still tucked in the upturned hem of jeans that lay crumpled in a pile on the floor.

The only thing better than a vegetable garden of blackberries, carrots, asparagus and beets is that very vegetable garden, yet-to-be-planted. A square of earth -- worms, spiders, rocks, last fall's wayward dinkies, treasures to be dugged out and tugged at. An afternoon as agreeable to the four-year-old as to his horizontal mother, who selflessly conducts scientific trials as to the healing properties of hammock-plus-sunshine.

(This is for the good of all mankind, I tell you. Please do not disturb my revelations.)

This Monday, show us a piece of your home that's so vividly restorative we can smell it, or hear it, or feel it on our face -- newness and rebirth and vitality and mischief.

Or, as they say -- show us the spring in your step.

Comments

[Steph]

It seems all I have been posting about is gardening and spring...here are a few:
http://slsmithphotgraphy.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/flowers.html

http://slsmithphotgraphy.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/whats-got-me-so-excited.html

http://slsmithphotgraphy.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/04/farmer-steph.html

[Kelly]

a literal scent - and wow, I want to bawl over your post! we moved last fall, and we don't have peepers at our new home! http://www.flickr.com/photos/8702729@N02/3489855300/

[marty]

Each morning light pools through doors and windows...each day a new start...full of promise...early morning newness creeping in slowly so as to gently tug the residents along untill finally it burst into the full light of day...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/martyhadding/3398843654/in/set-72157603581325617/

[mary]

The swirl of new green leaves as they break from the ground:

http://inasoftlight.blogspot.com/2009/04/swirl.html

and a cloud of pink, perfuming the air:

http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/2009/04/bit-of-pink-heaven.html

Spring is my favorite time of year. :)

[summer]

this is a part of my larger neighborhood "home" and seeing as I live in a 3rd floor apt. and I seem to kill everything I touch growing wise this is the most restorative aspect to my life. I hope you can feel it, smell it and know how much I find my own little rebirth here every morning.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sufferingsummer/3464143086/in/set-72157603787388753/

[Sarah - Ji]

Beautiful images! So, Kate, did you take all 3 photos while conducting your scientific trials? Cuz I totally could see you doing that.

xoxo

[CDScott]

Here's my post from last week that tells how spring has pulled me away from the computer...spring abounds!

http://courtneysablogger.blogspot.com/2009/04/where-oh-where-has-my-little-blog-gone.html

[sweetsalty kate]

Oh, yeah, Sarah-Ji. In order for the scientific trials to be considered valid, one must not move anything beyond hands or head. A simple swivel must suffice, unless a beer is closeby, at which time it is considered reasonable to get up in order to retrieve said beer and relieve it of its lonliness and its fullness.

[mnkathy]

Here it is...early, early springtime (or late, late winter--however you choose to view it) at our local nature preserve.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25773211@N07/3367226492/

[s]

these tiny Violas spoke to me at the garden center and it felt so good to bring them home and plant them.
While planting I was thinking back to my grandmother who had many, many kinds of flowers and vegetables growing every year...and it made me long to be more like her. :)

http://www.simplysneaky.blogspot.com/

[sharon]

jasmine soothes my soul

http://sharonlinnefaulk.com/photo/2009/05/04/jasmine/

[Jess]

I spent all day Saturday making this - http://fifthlampdown.blogspot.com/2009/05/tra-la.html

[Rachel Parton]

yay! happy spring to all.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/partonponderings/3502220320/

[gonzomama]

my most relaxing spot in our home. its he breeziest/coolest in summer & the coziest in winter.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/59735955@N00/2880151999/in/set-72157603846311475/

[shelli - mama of letters]

It's very therapeutic for me to wander around the woods in our backyard when the afternoon sun is low in the sky:

http://www.mamaofletters.com/Site/The_Focal_Point/Entries/2009/4/28_Twist.html

[Kathy Winter]

Spring sprung a bit early here in Florida. I saw this vibrant bunch hanging along a wall near my home.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kathywinter/3185430051/

[Jamie-o-e-o]

It took me a little while to find that part of my home...while it's not necessarily spring-like, it holds for me the promise of things being new again. Thank you for your post. It helped me find something I didn't know I was looking for.

http://camerashy.cemestos.com/our-windowsill/

[Shawna]

oh my gosh, how i miss the peepers.

[Sammie]

Lovely Spring........

http://greaterworksphotography.blogspot.com/2009/04/once-upon-time.html

[sarah]

my son has been finding lots of eggs this spring:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bradleysofaustin/3503522050/

[Andie]

http://www.andieedwards.com/blog/?p=479

[CarrieJ]

My very first peony!! It was one of my grandfather's and I transplanted it to my house. It gave me a fright the first few years, being so small and dinky ... but now look at her!! GORGEOUS!!
http://thejaxon4.blogspot.com/2009/05/222-carrie-carrie-quite-contrary.html

[Diane]

Since spring has only JUST ARRIVED up here, north of 55. I would LOVE to share what it looks like TODAY! Most people have experienced this months ago but for me, this is today's first signs of spring:

http://albertaphotography.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/spring-north-of-55/

[Mama Moose]

My dogwood tree restores my faith each spring that, yes, warm weather is coming.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamamoose/3506300942/sizes/m/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamamoose/3506300322/sizes/m/in/photostream/