<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/flowers/spring03062006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/flowers/spring03062006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Flowers are starting to show their color. I guess that means spring is here. This comes up in a sheltered flower bed against a cement wall so it gets a lot more heat and warmth than the average spot around here. Still, spring has sprung. Taken 3/7/2006.</center><br />n<br />n<b>Spring is strong and virtuous,<br />nBroad-sowing, cheerful, plenteous,<br />nQuickening underneath the mould<br />nGrains beyond the price of gold.<br />nSo deep and large her bounties are,<br />nThat one broad, long midsummer day<br />nShall to the planet overpay<br />nThe ravage of a year of war.<br />n<br />nRalph Waldo Emerson</b>