Alphabet Photos: Day One - Letter A

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A is for Apple Blossom

Quilly over at Pacific Paradise is hosting Alphabet Photos. Participants will post a different photo each day in the month of May. Each day will represent a letter of the alphabet. Today is the letter A. I took this macro photo a couple of weeks ago when the blossoms on the trees in my yard were blooming at their peak. It was right after a storm. I love the raindrops on the delicate petals. The blossoms have since dropped or all blown away.

Be sure to stop in over at Quilly's and check out all the other participants.

Tomorrow, I'm going to visit my sweet little Granddaugher so I'll be away from my blog for a few days. My Skywatch Friday will post later today and I hope you'll come back by and take a look. I promise to catch up with all of you when I return the first part of next week.
Here's hoping you all have a wonderful next few days. I will miss you and will come visit as soon as I get back home!

Sky Watch Friday - Fluffy Spaceships

Last week the storm had come and gone, the snow had melted, the sun had come out and shone brightly! This was my view from my patio deck ~ white clouds stacked one on top of the other - three fluffy spaceships flying in unison!

Singing Out the News

What the Robin Told

The wind told the grasses

And the grasses told the trees.

The trees told the bushes,

And the bushes told the bees.

The bees told the robin,

And the robin sang out clear:

Wake up! Wake up! Spring is here!

~ author unknown

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"

~Robin Williams

Take the Train

Yesterday I took a drive down by the Ohio River. The West Virginia side of the river near Parkersburg is paralleled by railroad tracks. Tracks used by trains carrying coal and chemicals to here and there.
Years ago when I was maybe two or three years old my family lived with my Grandparents. The train track was right in front of the house. My Mom said we could ride to “town.”
I was too young to remember that; but my eighth grade class rode the train all night to tour Washington, DC. It was exciting to sit and watch the landscape go by. I remember at some point during the night we pulled into a station and we waved and smiled at the people on the platform. There was so much to see. I know I barely slept that night for fear of missing something. However, the following night after touring DC all day the sound of the cars on the tracks and the rocking gently lulled me to sleep.
It was the only experience of train riding I ever had and those particular kind of slow moving train rides have long since disappeared. Oh, you can board a restored train and take a little trip of a few miles or so but the same ambiance just isn’t there. It’s not like being in the moment and sharing the day to day life of the people around you.
Imagine if you could turn back time and hop a train ~ where ‘round the bend’ would you go?

Wordless Wednesday ~ I Hear the Train A Comin'