As a Garden Cascades With Blossoms

All photos taken these past two Saturdays on sunny afternoon strolls

Look around you:  Winter is over;

The winter rains are over, gone!

Spring flowers are in blossom all over.

The whole world's a choir--and singing!

Spring warblers are filling the forest

With sweet arpeggios!

Lilacs are exuberantly purple and perfumed,

And cherry trees fragrant with blossoms!

~Song of Solomon 2:10 (Message paraphrase)

Let's tramp through the countryside.  Let's sleep at some wayside inn, then rise early and listen to bird-song.

Let's look for wildflowers in bloom, blackberry bushes blossoming white, fruit trees festooned with cascading flowers.  ~Song of Solomon 7:9

Attention, all!  See the marvels of God!  He plants flowers and trees all over the earth, bans war from pole to pole, breaks all the weapons across his knee.  ~Psalm 46:8

I will sing for joy in God, explode in praise from deep in my soul!  He dressed me up in a suit of salvation, he outfitted me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom who puts on a tuxedo and a bride a jeweled tiara.
 

For as the earth bursts with spring wildflowers, and as a garden cascades with blossoms, so the master, God, brings forth righteousness into full bloom and puts praise on display before the nations.  ~Isaiah 61:10