Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.
Kahlil Gibran
In the High Desert of New Mexico, after a long cold winter, everyone longs for Spring. What a welcome sight. Trees blooming, the first flowers bravely emerging from the desert floor, birds building their homes. Even with all the wind, nature follows its own plan. This season has inspired poets to be reinspired and to pen their thoughts.
We wanted to welcome Spring with a delicious smoothie recipe and share some of the delights found in our garden, accompanied by some favorite poems.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Spring – An Experience in Immortality.
Henry D. Thoreau
Springtime
Look at the boughs,
How white they are,
It’s snowing flowers!
Scoffing at the rain,
The sun dries
The weepy willow
And the sky reflects
In the violets
Its pure colors…
The fly opens its wings
And the dragonfly
With the golden pupils
And the wasp-like corset,
Unfolding its silky wings,
Has resumed its flight.
The water happily babbles,
The tiny fish wriggles
It’s Springtime again.
Théophile Gautier (English Translation)
The seasons are what a symphony ought to be:
Four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
Arthur Rubenstein
Here is our toast to Spring:
MANGO SMOOTHIE
- 4 Mangoes (we used Champagne mangoes)
- 1 cup Spring water
- 2 Tbsp. raw honey
- 6 heaping Tbsp. of Trader Joe’s French Village plain yogurt, or So Delicious Coconut Milk Plain Yogurt
Peel and remove seeds from mangoes. Place the fruit together with the water, honey and yogurt in a blender. Blend until smooth.
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