Greening

Earth Day 2017.   It's been raining all week.  The hillsides are getting greener and greener.  I snuck out between the showers to click a few photos.

 
This time of year always reminds me of Robert Frost's poem: 

        "Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold,

Her early leaf's a flower, but only so an hour ...."

The woods are full of dogwoods in bloom.

The dawn redwood is leafing out.  I need to find a special place to plant this little tree this spring.

Spring is such a hopeful time of the year.  I'm hoping the environment can  survive the next four years of people in power who care more for money than the earth.