Weekend Snapshot: April Snow Showers Please Bring May Flowers!

Yes, on April 20th we had snow in northeastern Washington. The amount varied from a light dusting at our house to 3-5 inches where some of my students live.

I awoke this morning to flowers sitting side by side with shrubs covered with a dusting of snow.How fitting that this plant is called snow in summer. I don't know if we will ever see the white flowers that make it look like snow in summer. Right now I guess a better name is snow in spring. No more snow in the forecast... but the temperatures will still stay cool all week. At least the girls didn't come to school today wearing flip flops! To find other weekend snapshots go here.

Celebrating National Poetry Month: #21

sunset over Lake Chelan

Swift Things Are Beautiful

Swift things are beautiful:

Swallows and deer,

And lightning that falls

Bright-veined and clear,

Rivers and meteors,

wind in the wheat,

The strong-withered horse

The runner's sure feet.

And slow things are beautiful:

The closing of day,

The pause of the wave

That curves downward to spray,

The ember that crumbles,

The opening flower,

The the ox that moves on

In the quiet of power.

- Elizabeth Coatsworth