Life is about Another Chance
February 12, 2013
Snowdrops, winter’s most welcome flowers
“There might be a second chance . . . In fact, there are more than two chances — many more. I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”
– Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
The first snowdrops are coming up. They are such small symbols of rebirth and renewal, so delicate-looking but so hardy, too, among the first of nature’s seasonal flowers to brave the winter chill and emerge from dormancy. So much hope in a flower!
Snowdrops
Three snowdrops in a little glass vase
What a miracle!
My watercolor sketch of snowdrops inspired by this botanical print by Edward Augustus Bowles (1865 – 1954), Galanthus ‘Galatea’ from Treasures of the Royal Horticultural Society by Brent Elliott
February 12, 2013 at 6:11 am
No snowdrops here – at least, I don’t think so. Of course, we have no snow, either! They’re a beautiful flower, and a reminder that I should get away from the water and see what’s coming up in my neighborhood.
February 12, 2013 at 6:28 am
Beautiful images of snowdrops…now if I could only get the snow to stay melted I could see them.
February 12, 2013 at 10:24 am
Beautiful…I have bulbs…all kinds…poking up out of the ground and That gives me hope of the new spring to come! Can’t wait!!
February 12, 2013 at 12:07 pm
Wonderful!
February 13, 2013 at 6:30 am
Pretty pretty!! I am not seeing growing things yet and the last cold snap did away with the few odd annuals still trying to bloom from the summer. We only got three inches from that last storm though, so we won’t have to wait months for it to melt off and early spring plants to begin to come to life!
February 13, 2013 at 6:36 am
The One I call my Only Friend once told me, “Always begin”.
Blessed are the beginners, for starting holds celestial creation within it. (STARting – stARTing)
Thank you, Rosemary, for beginning again with us all.
February 13, 2013 at 7:51 am
Thank you for pointing out the stars in starting! I love those hidden mysteries in words.
February 14, 2013 at 7:45 am
Stars in our eyes in order to see the Light.
Words have always been full of mystery and delightful astonishment for me. It really blessed me the first time I realized that one of God’s names included Art.
It’s all a work of Art!