April 2025 Blog

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Picasso's newest painting: " Spring Sunshine" 12"x12" Acrylic on Canvas

Spring!

Hello Spring!

Welcome Spring!

Happy Spring!
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What does the Spring season mean to you?​​

Spring has been a time for me of watching the crocuses and tulips lift their sleepy heads out of the ground to say hello to the world. They herald in a time of warmer weather and longer sunshiny days, of walks with the dogs that don't require big puffy coats, knitted hats and scarves. Days that seem to never end. Now, don't get me wrong, I do enjoy to watch the snow come down on a winters day. But, Ahh, the spring time beats even that for me.
​ Does hearing the word Spring put a "spring" in your step?
​(No pun intended-Hee Hee)

After the winter we've had here in New York, it certainly does put a spring in my step, for sure! Since I was a young child, I've always looked forward to the spring time.  The spring time for me meant that the warmer weather was just around the corner, there was more sunshine, longer days, blossoming leaves, more playing with my friends and siblings outdoors and on and on! 

It also meant that the Easter Bunny was going to visit our house and leave us baskets filled with candy. I loved the chocolate coved marshmallow eggs and chocolate bunnies the most! For Easter every year my grand mother who was a milliner would create the most beautiful Easter bonnets for us while my mom, a dress maker and designer, would make us gorgeous custom coats and dresses to go with the hats. We would travel from our home on Utopia Blvd. in Flushing, Queens to the Bloomingdales to get our black patent leather Mary Jane shoes, socks, pocket books and gloves. These would be saved in our bedroom closet until Easter Sunday. Every once in a while I would sneak a peak in the box that they were housed in and smell the new scent of the black patent leather and dream of how special I would feel all dressed up.

As I grew and had my own children, I never forgot how excited I always felt this time of the year. However, Easter took on a whole other meaning for me. I'm not down playing the wonderful and exciting anticipation of the Easter Bunny coming and those chocolate covered marshmallow eggs that tasted like heaven. On the contrary, as an adult, it now meant a new life left dormant during the winter months. I guess you could call it an awakening of sorts. I became more interested in my faith and what that meant to me. I truly believe that my kids were the inspiration for this awakening. As they went to their religious education classes, I learned along with them. I realized that I didn't grasp any knowledge of my religious education when I was growing up. Oh, I thought I knew everything, but when I was learning along with my own kids, I found out that I was far from knowing anything at all. This was a real eyeopener for me. I realized right then and there that I had a great deal to learn and that everyday we learn something new no matter how old we get. What about you? What does the Spring or any change of the seasons mean to you? Do you have a favorite season? Please share you thoughts with me in the comments below.

In closing, I would have to say that whether you live in the
Northeastern part of the United States like we do
or else where in the world,
​take a little time to smell the flowers
and do something nice for yourself.
Happy tales to you,
xoxo Yvonne