I Love Spring Flowers

After a long harsh winter, Latvia finally comes alive with colorful spring flowers, budding trees, and singing birds. Every day a new variety of color and beauty brings a breath of life into the city. All these flowers sprout up from the ground everywhere you look. 

My experience in Las Vegas is that spring flowers come from the nursery and are planted where we want them. It’s beautiful to see all the planted flowers around our neighborhood, but few come up from the ground on their own. The dry arid temperatures of the desert are too harsh for delicate spring flowers to bloom.

We just visited a tulip farm where all the colorful flowers were emerging. Many rows of bulbs and seeds from last year are now blossoming and it was beautiful. I walked rows of tulips in red, orange, yellow, pink, and white and a variety of other multi-colored flowers.

A few flowers were just budding, others were opening up and yet others had been open wide and sagging over. A few had reached the end of cycle, so cut and discarded. This reminded me of the stages of our lives as we all grow through the cycle of life from seeds in the ground to full bloom. In my mind, I am still in full bloom.  

Spring flowers just make me feel better.