Spring ~ First Flower Blooms

It's official, our First Spring Flower has bloomed!

Much more than just a Dandelion!

Hey, before you go.........

Here are just some of the things that others say about me:

• I am a rich source of vitamins and minerals, with my leaves getting the highest rating of Vitamin A content of all greens!
• My roots have high amounts of choline, which is and important nutrient for the liver.
• My leaves are diuretic, which helps flush excess water out of your body.
• My flowers are endowed with lecithin (good for liver ailments)
• I am a good companion plant.
• My taproot brings up essential nutrients to plants that have shallower roots.
• I add minerals and nitrogen to the soil.
• I attract pollinating insects.
• I release ethylene gas which helps fruits to ripen.
• My leaves are abundant with vitamins A, C & K, as well as good source of calcium, potassium, iron and manganese
• My flower petals are great for dandelion wine
• My roasted roots can be used for caffeine free coffee
• I have been traditionally used in a British soft drink (dandelion and burdock)

You have got to admit, for a common weed, I'm pretty dandy!!

Thanks to Wikipedia and Herbal Legacy for listing my virtues!

It's a Promise Reminder!

Every time I see it, I can’t help but think, it’s a promise reminder! 

And yesterday I saw it again.  It was late afternoon, clouds had gathered and the wind picked up and shortly after it started to rain.  The rainfall was brief and minimal.  So when it was over I am so glad I happened to look out the window only to discover, a beautiful complete rainbow, arched across the Eastern sky.

I thought of Noah, the covenant that was made and the promise that was given.

“And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud; And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh;” Genesis 9:14 &15 (KJV)

To this very day, the promise has been kept. Sure there has been rain and there have been floods on the earth but there has never been another flood that has destroyed all flesh. It is a promise He has kept, and it reminds me that He will keep all of His other wonderful promises.

But look, the promise wasn’t just to Noah.  The verse says,” between me and you and every living creature of all flesh”, so that includes everyone.  

A beautiful rainbow, a promise reminder from a promise keeper, and it makes me so very, very glad. How about you?

Ah, Hope!

"Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow."

~Susanna Moodie

 

Shhh........if you're really quiet.....

you won't scare them away.

One of my favorite Spring views!

What is yours?

Today's Moment

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore

Sing! Sing! Sing!

Use 

the 

talents

 you 

possess -

  

for 

the woods 

would be 

a

 very silent place 

if 

no birds sang 

except for the best.  

~Henry Van Dyke

A Beautiful Ending

"It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream."  

Author: Bern Williams 

A great ending to any day - is to see a beautiful sunset.

Happy Dreams!