We took off from our every day routine in March, and headed for East Texas.  Pittsburgh, Texas area to be exact, well-known by their famous hot links.  Springtime is so beautiful in East Texas.  The Azaleas are in bloom everywhere, and the Wisteria mysteriously takes over dying trees and structures, splashing lavender color grape like blooms in it’s vine arms, which hold it’s prey tightly.  Green life decided to sneak up and explode on us again, reminding that after every dark winter, comes the green fresh bursting forth blooms of spring.  Mother Nature awakens and stretches her arms and legs, and breathes in the crisp early morning dewy air ever ready with her green tone paints and rhinestone touches, and decorates the earth.

New life and energy also emerged from our own souls just being there, connected and alive for those few days.

As we connected with our surroundings, we too noticed how our own hearts were breaking open with newness and appreciation.  For all that happens in the darkness of winter, the hardening the pruning back, the coldness that settles within us and permeates our being; somehow also now magically begins to cast off it’s hardened shell, revealing soft, pliable, loving places within us we thought were gone.

And the Divine Mother Nature laughs with wonder at how we could forget so easily.  She always emerges when the time is right.  We too, emerge with her and take in all her glorious awakening.