Walking Iten's Acres: The Parade April 14, 2014

It has begun in earnest--and that's important, to an old man and his Acres. What has begun? The parade of flowers from now to November. Already I can stand anywhere on the Acres and see the beautiful. And each walk, morning and afternoon, reveals a new loveliness in bloom or a new loveliness on its way to join the parade. Daffodils are everywhere--in the beds. besieging the pond, islands in the meadow and wild area--yellow, whites, pinks; huge, "normal," miniature. Hundreds of blooms already--multitudes to come. And the hyacinths have begun--purples, whites, yellows, pinks--beauty and aroma. The corydalis--yellow, pink, red, lavender--are also sprinkled across The Acres. And today, as I mentioned below, the wild flowers have made their entrance--spring beauties and violets and anemones, anyone? Coming up in earnest--with the promise of future "parade floats" of their own--are the iris, lilies, and bleeding hearts. I shall take pictures for those of you who like parades. As Joy said, "for the beauty of the earth . . . Christ, our God, to Thee we raise, this our hymn of grateful praise."