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fair vernal flowers, laugh forth.

© wintergreendaydream 2012

awake, thou wintry earth -
fling off thy sadness!
fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
your ancient gladness!
~thomas blackburn

hullo :)  springtime has once again come and while i love winter and esteem it more greatly than any other season, it'll be perhaps slightly nice to say goodbye to the reckless blizzards and snowstorms we've been having this winter up here in the northwest.  and just so you don't get any wrong impressions, i disagree with the quote above, as it says "fling off thy sadness" in response to the season of winter - winter is not a sad season at all, but a wondrous occasion of cool blue skies, brisk winds and beautifully mad snowstorms that wreck havoc and demolish structures and hearts that are not made for such a place as this. but i thought that quote sounded quaint and looked slightly at home right underneath that photograph, so there ;) 

now, do tell...are you glad of springtime's awakening or sadly dismayed at the sudden farewell winter shockingly gave?  (actually, up here, it's pretty much still winter.  the blossoms have partly bloomed, but not quite.  this photograph is from last spring - hehe.)

and to celebrate (or mourn) the retrieval of winter and arrival of spring, you have a post written completely and entirely by me.  no stealing pictures off of weheartit or tumblr...completely and entirely by me!  aha!  now i feel accomplished!

blessed be Your name.

there is a beautiful song going through my head right now.


"blessed be Your name, when the sun's shining down on me,
when the world's all as it should be, blessed be Your name.
and blessed be Your name, on the road marked with suffering,
though there's pain in the offering, blessed be Your name."

when i decided to follow Jesus and give Him my heart, i had no idea that four days later my life would be turned upside down.  i had no idea that these past six and a half months would be spent this way.  i had no idea what was going to happen to me.

but, now, from today on, I know that no matter what happens to me...blessed be His name.  through each and every trial, through each and every beautiful moment, I will give God the praise and glory He rightfully deserves from this little piece of nothing He calls His daughter.

"You give and take away, You give and take away, but my heart will chose to say, Lord, blessed be Your name."

i hope tomorrow brings us our butterfly wings.

i've always been one to wear earrings, since i was just a little toddler and my love for earrings has never ceased.

i had a pair of icy blue dangly earrings that my mum and dad got me for christmas one year.  they were my absolutely favouritest earrings in the entire world.  but once this past september, after having to take them off for a CT scan, i lost a back off one of the earrings and i still have not found a replacement.

i thought i would never find true love again.  but i did.

now, these jewels do not hold a candle to my precious icy blue dangles, but they are butterflies and right now butterflies hold...sentiment. i find these to be perfect to wear at this time in my life and i shall wear them until i find a replacement back for my dangles. but these butterfly earrings...oh, how they make me giggle!

falling

ever feel like you are falling into something, anything and you have not the power to stop yourself?  falling into the abyss, falling into love, falling into confusion, etc.

it's crazy weird.

yup.

*is falling into something*

I don't know what I'm falling into though.  perhaps all of the three above mixed up together.  perhaps one of the above.  perhaps two.  perhaps none.  perhaps...I'm not really falling and I'm just imagining it.  anyways, whatever it is that I'm falling into...it feels like I imagine skydiving feels like.  terrifying, wonderful, horrific, beautiful, demented, unnatural, powerful, unfathomable, heartbreaking.

I'm falling into something in the middle of somewhere and nowhere and I cannot seem to stop.

eleven is a funny number, but it's nicer than two.

I was tagged by RayRay!

Here are the rules: You're supposed to tell 11 random things about yourself, answer the 11 questions the tagger asked, make up 11 new questions, tag 11 people (or however many you want) and let them know on their blog.  Here we go..

-Eleven Random Things About Me-
(1) I have a birthmark that looks like a weird group of freckles all joined together on my knee.
(2) I am slightly obsessed with butterflies because they are just sooooooo cute! xD
(3) I am madly in love with Scandinavian names.
(4) I'm deathly afraid of heights.
(5) Swans are my favouritest of all animals.
(6) I wish my name was Aurora and that I had black straight hair.
(7) I find American food to be despicable.  The English are better cooks...excluding me from that!
(8) My duck, Genevieve, is one of the most beautiful creatures God ever made.
(9) I walk around my house singing in a whisper all day long.
(10) I weigh roughly 110 lbs.
(11) I got very upset when I discovered that Anne Shirley is, in fact, just a fictional character.

-Answers to RayRay's questions-

(1) If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?  Minnesota
(2) If you could meet one author, alive or dead, who would it be? Why? Suzanne Collins because she has such an imagination and it would be soooo interesting to meet her!
(3) What is your favorite Bible verse? Why?  As of today, it is Romans 8:15–16.  I saw it on my schoolwork and it really touched me because I have such a hard time not being afraid of God.  I mean, I have a hard time seeing how He could be compassionate to somebody like me and I've not been a born again believer for very long and it just sort of helps me remember that He does love me with unconditional love and that I am His daughter. 
(4) If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you want live? And in what kind of house?  Minnesota!  On a big acreage with an old white two story house with an attic and one of those cool American porches that go all around the house except from the back :)
(5) What are 3 of your favorite movies?  hmm...Defiance, Alice In Wonderland, and ...hmm....I don't know...maybe Pride & Prejudice..?
(6) Who is your role model? Why?  Both of my parents.  Because they are such amazing people and are so selfless and care more about their children than themselves.
(7) What is your favorite fruit?  ...I'm not actually sure...but apples are nice sometimes and so are oranges.
(8) If you acquired 1 million dollars, what would you do with it?  ahhhhhhh....I'd buy my family the farm of my parent's dreams in Kentucky and then I'd probably put some aside for nursing school and then I'd probably buy an iPod touch and every single Taylor Swift album and then I'd probably buy my mum a new car and then I'd give the rest to several different charities...jahhh, the iPod touch/Taylor Swift album thing is a little selfish, but hey, I'm being truthful!  xD
(9) What is your favorite season?  Winter
(10) What do you see yourself doing/where do you see yourself in 10 years?  I honestly do not know.  But I would want to be working at a hospital and/or married to someone very wonderful and with a young one or two.
(11) What is your favorite pastime?  talking to my closest friends, creating music, listening to music, writing songs or doing school.  I really cannot decide.

-My questions for those whom I am tagging-

(1) Have you ever had a crush on a famous person, whether dead or alive?  If so, who?
(2) Do you have a pet sea turtle called Fergus Bloo?  If not, why not? and if so, I applaud you!
(3) Why are you staring at your computer screen with that dumbstruck look on your face?
(4) What are your two favourite names...one for a lad and one for a lass?
(5) If you could re-create a rainbow, what colours would be in it and in what order would they appear?
(6) Does cotton candy remind you more of ferris wheels or of corvettes?
(7) Do you like your middle name?  If not, what would you prefer it to be?
(8) If you were given a choice, would you rather live all by yourself in Greenland or Madagascar?
(9) What is your favourite flavour of pie?
(10) Would you prefer to be a singer or a songwriter?  Why would you rather be what you said you'd rather be?
(11) Would you rather work at a French bakery in downtown San Francisco or would you rather work at a veterinarian clinic as a vet's assistant in Sydney, Australia?

well, now I am supposed to tag some people.  I think I'll tag...

-annabelle

-hailey

-katy

-taylor

-joseph ryan

-emma

-rachel

yup.  goodnight, you all.

a snowfall fairytale

it began to snow for the third time this winter on tuesday night and i only got around to taking some photographs yesterday evening as it was melting.