The Look Back 2013–2018: March 2014
First published March 20, 2014 Revisited with a new reflection.
A Spring Thing
Spring thoughts at autumn time… with Robert Frost.
We’re going back to March 2014, when I paired Spring blossoms with Robert Frost’s poem “A Prayer in Spring.”
And here I am, opening that post again in September. Autumn has barely arrived, and I’m already looking at Spring flowers!
Well, look who else was enjoying them… Buzz… Buzz!
I can almost hear him: “You admire the flowers, Robert. I have work to do.”
Fair enough. I’ll try to stay out of your way!
What I notice now
Looking back at this photograph, I find myself watching the bee. Those white blossoms fill the picture, but he has his attention on the flower right beneath him.
That brings to mind Frost’s request to let us enjoy what is here without thinking so far ahead to the harvest. Reading that in Autumn gives me pause. I’ve come back to a Spring poem at the very time of year it asks us not to hurry toward.
Oh, Robert… how often do you do that? Look forward to something, then start thinking about what comes next before you’ve quite enjoyed it?
The bee appears to have his afternoon sorted. I’m the one who needs another look.
There were more photos from that day:
A moment from the original
Back in 2014, I shared Robert Frost’s “A Prayer in Spring,” which begins:
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
— Robert Frost, “A Prayer in Spring”
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
Further into the poem, he asks that we be happy in the happy bees. Looking at this fellow among the blossoms, I’m glad I put the photograph and poem together.
I can’t tell you whether that bee was happy. He certainly had plenty of flowers to choose from! And twelve years later, I still enjoy stopping here with him.
The Conversation Continues
Stay among the flowers with me a moment…
You may be ready for Autumn, or Spring may be arriving where you are. This old photograph has me thinking about what I might walk past today while my mind is busy with tomorrow. These new photos from that day say “visit what you saw and there often was more there than you remember“.
What is giving you pleasure in your corner of the world right now?
I’ve borrowed a few Spring blossoms from March 2014. Now I’m curious to see what September has waiting outside.
📍 Fort Stewart, Georgia
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