May first. Just too much.

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May first, there was too much green and pink and yellow. There was no escaping the loveliness, the delicacy. Beauty assaulted me on every front— forsythia, like a breaking wave, no, a tsunami of yellow; the old magnolia exploding into pink and white, like grenades; blue sky— there was no escape from all this beauty, I was being force-fed a spring morning, even the oxygen was divine…

~ Abigail Thomas, What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir


Photograph: Precious Things (Johannes Linder by André Hemstedt)

14 thoughts on “May first. Just too much.”

  1. Force-fed a Speing morning, eh? Love the visual and hopefully after the heat turns off later this morning,I can venture outside and get a bit of this myself…. 😉

  2. So many things in this world are awesome when we just look around and allow ourselves the opportunity to take it in and not try to of change it!

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