Pink Tones, Blue Skies and Moonlight -

Yesterday the sky was an incredible blue - what we call Carolina Blue in

 North Carolina. Cloudless, no wind, brilliant sunshine, and by mid-afternoon 

the perfect, for me, temperature of 70F. I sat on the porch just to breathe

in the air. It felt hot through my too heavy clothes. Wandered the garden

 taking photos of new shoots poking up, a few blossoms already on

 the azaleas, leaves unfurling on the hydrangeas, tiny frilled buds on

 the fig and Japanese maple trees. 

Thoughts of a damaging frost come to mind these early pre-spring days.

 It will get chilly at night, down to around freezing on Wednesday and 

Thursday - fingers will be crossed.

Please be kind to our gardens Mother Nature.

........... and then last evening, as the sun went down, the bright moon

was framed in the branches of an oak tree, lighting the magnolia's

pink blossoms, turning the sky to different shades of blue.

A perfect afternoon became an even more perfect early evening.

We are all like the bright moon; we still have our darker side.
Khalil Gibran