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It is Springtime here in New Zealand, and these Iceplant flowers are currently in bloom in my garden. This is a photo of a small portion of a large earthenware container with flowers cascading everywhere. Also in flower at the moment are Freesias, Irises, Sweat Peas, Lavender, Jasmine, Roses and many more, plus the native hebes too. There is nothing like a garden, and getting one’s hands into the soil, to touch base with nature and recharge the batteries when times are tough and life gets rough.

A Prayer in Spring
by Robert Frost

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.

For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfil.