Just added to the top of the sidebar is a triumphant musical welcome to spring from the first movement (Andante un poco maestoso – Allegro molto vivace) of Schumann's Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, op. 38.
Question: why are pansies used as an image of weakness when, indeed, these hardy blossoms are among the first to brave early spring chills and seem to survive just about everything? We placed pots of pansies on our windowsills in church for Easter and I worried that they wouldn't last long being situated over the radiators and right next to the windows. They're still there!
-ConcordPastor
Pansies = weakness? Nah. Most of the pansies I know are really strong. They have to be to survive. ;-)
ReplyDeleteLove the spring music! Very original.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I am enjoying Vivaldi's Spring as I work.
Love your pictures!
ReplyDeleteMs.B: thanks for the "piskie wisdom" - so true!
ReplyDeleteA friend of my mother's was a poet. She did a different flower poem for each of the 13 girls that were in her Sunday School Class. From "Bouquet"--Impressions of young girls in the Sunday School Class
ReplyDeletePansy
Saucy little pansy face,
Crinkling in fun,
Flashing out your colors
In the morning sun--
You're a lovely actress
And lead two lives apart,
For there's a world of tenderness
In your velvet heart!
-Sarah Cook Rawley