Monday, March 21, 2011

First Day of Spring

 Zora Neale Hurston
Spring-time in Florida is not a matter of peeping violets or bursting buds merely. It is a riot of color in nature—glistening green leaves, pink, blue, purple, yellow blossoms that fairly stagger the visitor from the north. The miles of hyacinths lie like an undulating carpet on the surface of the river and divide reluctantly when the slow-moving alligators push their way log-like across. the nights are white nights for the moon shines with dazzling splendor, or in the absence of that goddess, the soft darkness creeps down laden with innumerable scents. The heavy fragrance of magnolias mingled with the delicate sweetness of jasmine and wild roses.
Zora Neale Hurston  (1891–1960), African-American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, playwright and anthropologist. John Redding, in John Redding Goes to Sea, Stylus (1921).

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