All Too Soon ...

“All too soon we had to part

The moment you had touched my heart

And with you went my dream

All too soon …

You should know as well as I

Our love deserves another try

For you whispered goodbye

All too soon

Too soon”

                     ~ “All Too Soon”

            ~ 1940 song composed
 by Duke Ellington, lyrics by Carl Sigman,

     recorded by other artists including

               Ella Fitzgerald

After rare warm February temperatures, this daffodil bloomed all too soon at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania, then whispers goodbye as it wilts all too soon after a March snowfall.

Daffodil, Jonquil, Narcissus … whatever name you choose, it’s beauty is gone all too soon about a week before spring is set to bloom.

Snow Painted Boughs...

“Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.”

                ~ Andy Goldsworthy, OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire)

                          ~ born 1956 

  British sculptor, photographer

                         & environmentalist 
I shot this evergreen with snow painted boughs on the upper plateau of Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania in mid-March, but it reminded me of the trees seen in Christmas Town in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, my most favorite of childhood Christmas specials ... and it still is!