Patti Lynn Clark Barnett

I am in love with every season! But there is something about spring and the beginning of summer that especially lights my fire. I have basically  written whole songs (in my mind) on my walks this time of year. And God's inspirational beauty is all around. It seems as though, "Everything that has breath is (truly) praising the Lord"!  

With this particular pastel, I will offer up some of my favorite spring/summer passages from some of the greatest poets and writers of all time.
 

Daughter of heaven and earth, Coy Spring
With sudden passion languishing breeze
Teaching barren moors to smile
Painting pictures mile on mile
Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

For lo the winter is past the rain is gone
The flowers appear on the earth
The time of the singing of birds is come
And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land
The fig tree putteth forth her green figs
And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell
Arise, my love, my fair one and come away
---Song of Solomon Chapter 2:Verses 11-12
 

Let us dance in the sun wearing wild flowers in our hair
We are at home midst the birds and the trees
For we are children of nature
---Susan Polis Shut
 
 
She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower
Which, so different from the rose, to which it is, nevertheless,
Sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring
---Marquis De Sade
 
 
 
What is one to say about June, the time of prefect young summer?
The fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, yet no sign to
Remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade
---Gertrude Jekyll
 
 
Summer is the time when one shed's one's tensions with one's clothes
And the right kind of day is a jeweled balm for the battered spirit
A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief
That all's right with the world
---James Russell Lowell
 
 
What joy I have in June's return
My feet are parched my eyeballs burn
---Thomas Hood
 

Now every field is clothed with grass,
every tree is clothed with leaves
Now the woods put forth their blossoms
And the year assumes her gay attire
---Virgil

As I promised, I will be sharing some pictures now and then.
 
Since love comes in all shapes and sizes, here are some images representing some of the world’s sweetest loves.
 
These quotes about love are some of my favorites. I hope you will enjoy them as you celebrate this Valentine’s Day with either your true love or best friend, or both :-)
 
“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return”–
 
“This is my beloved: this is my friend”- Song of Solomon
 
“Love is a perky little elf dancing a perky little jig, then he suddenly turns on you with a miniature machine gun” -Matt Groening
 
“Love does not consist of gazing at one another. But in looking out together in the same direction” –Antoine de Saint Exupery