Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, May Blossoms

May opened up her basket,

And I looked in to see

A sky of blue,

The great sun too,

Both smiling out at me.

May opened up her basket,

And out the flowers fell.

Their fragrance spilled

Until it filled

All nature with its spell.

May opened up her basket,

Her choristers were there!

Their welcoming

To joy and spring

Was wafted on the air.

She opened up her basket-

The world was blithely gay.

Earth knew again

The ample regin

And blessing of the May!

~Leland B. Jacobs

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, At the Edge of a Petal

Al's plum blossoms, across the street from our house at Greenlake, Seattle

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
~William Carlos Williams

Not Just Black and White. Mixed Media Monday

This ATC was made for the Mixed Media Monday theme of "not just black and white".  It celebrates the return of spring to the Pacific Northwest, where the black limbs of the trees are now covered in blossoms. Painted, foiled, stamped, with vintage dictionary paper (definition: spring) and some tiny ruby vintage glass flower cabochons.