Springtime and Wildflowers

Springtime and wildflowers - celebrating birth, renewal, life.

To casual observers, Florida seasons are essentially non-existent or limited to hot and warm, tourist and non-tourist, summer and not summer. To natives, the seasons are subtle, but distinctive.

In springtime, babies abound in open spaces of the interior pine flat lands. Calves and colts cling to their mothers while quail, scrub jays, and mockingbirds guard their nests. In the wetlands, baby alligators and snapping turtles take their first swim. Weeds drink April showers and dance in the breezes to transform into yellow, pink, and lavender kaleidoscopes. "Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these." Luke 12:27 (NIV)

This flurry of activity in nature sets the stage for Easter. New life is born and weeds are transformed. " ... I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." John 10:10 (NIV) Souls are reborn, lives transformed, new creatures in Christ. Easter - celebrating rebirth, renewal, life. He is risen!