To be as good as spring itself…

Photo: Baz Ratner/Reuters

A girl sitting on a bench in a buttercup plantation in Israel.

Above, a girl sitting on a bench in a buttercup plantation in Israel. (Thanks to @pourmecoffee for the heads up.)

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. Ernest Hemingway

I must have flowers, always, and always. Claude Monet

Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.
Yoko Ono