SPRING

Why does April end so quickly?
Who can answer this question?
Maybe time has been sped up and it has become faster?
Maybe there are a lot of things to do and they make the day go by faster?
Maybe you are just lazy?
All together – it is spring.
What will you do to enjoy the fresh gust of wind that brings spring and beauty?
What will you do to change the usual atmosphere for new activities and meetings?
What will you do to stop everything and do your most beloved and dear – creativity?
Spring.
Every day of April was different.
The sun will jump out and happy people, undressing, will start meeting in the awakened city.
Then the wind will blow and everyone will hide in their houses again.
And the trees are still bare – they do not feel the warmth and sun – there is too little of it yet.
They have not received the signal and the order – blossom, there will be no cold until October.
Even the birds – although it is time for them to build their nests and sit down to hatch their chicks, they are not ready yet. The birds have already divided into their pairs, in some places they are still dividing up territories (we were at the lake last weekend and saw two males dancing in front of each other on the water, screaming loudly).

Their dance is a struggle and competition.

In April, everything is reborn.
Everything that was old and unnecessary recedes into oblivion, like rotten grass after winter.
Much is realized in a new way, in a different way, and changes with awakening.

What I would like to tell you now is one piece of wisdom that I have noticed in flowers.
Bulbous flowers are the first to wake up. These are beautiful, bright, fragrant flowers, whose rebirth is laid down far in the depths of winter and cold.
And here is what a strong productive energy is laid down in them when they go towards the light, towards the sun and warmth. They overcome a lot of obstacles to expose their tiny heads for one week to the spring sun. And only one week they play with their beauty. Only one week they give their love.
Wonderful!
After them, as a signal, the buds on the trees begin to move – I noticed from the cut grapes that this is how the vessels supply juice and nutrition from the roots to the branches at the beginning of spring to revive the buds on the trees. And now, during the day, you can see how the buds come to life, gain strength, put on their color, and grow in volume.
Wonderful!
Coming home, you want to change it, decorate and update it.
I took on this difficult task and decided that I would update the house by making artificial flowers from delicate violets and grapevine saved from last year’s fall.
What came out of it? A small decor that can be easily hung anywhere in the room.
Mood?
Wonderful!

Women and Flowers

Women and Flowers………

Women-and Flowers

Women…….Flowers……

Women and Flowers

Today the  post is only about this.
If anyone is not interested, please go yourself out and do not read.

women and flowers

Today is the Spring Festival. Look at the date of this post and you will understand everything.
But I’m crying………


I got up very early today, looked out the window.
On the street a gray fog, full of snow, melts snow from the roofs. Under the feet of a puddle of melted water.
And on this day for more than a hundred years in this territory of the planet created a holiday….spring holiday.
This holiday was not created here,created  in Moscow, Clara Zetkin (first lady), led by some active group of women to the square and trying to convince that women need equal rights with men.

Women and Flowers

And gradually, over the next few years, a holiday was created for women. This is the day among the gray winters, when men congratulated their close women, gave them attention and flowers.

Women and Flowers

I will not prove that she is right or not
I describe today.
This holiday gradually became one of the big and important days of the year in East Europe.
Then this holiday from Eastern Europe moved to other countries.
Depending on the number of emigrants from eastern Europe, it began to celebrate in Asia, China, America and the Middle East.
On this day, flower traders win million-dollar profits.
Specially for this day, flowers are being grown for sale.
Can you imagine how much fresh flowers are bought?

Women and Flowres

For a long time I did not live in Kiev, I came by traveling.
And this is the first March holiday, I’m celebrating here in Kiev, for the last ten years.
And I’m crying.
Everything changes. The country changes. The system is changing.
Why do I pay?
Because today is the last time this day is officially celebrated in Kiev. Since next year it has been officially canceled.

 

Yesterday I had  a lot of transport. And I saw people everywhere in the city, with flowers. Women carrying flowers.
Carrying flowers in their hands, in handbags. Women  bring tulips or roses or flowerpots.
Women yesterday were dressed unusually sedately and neatly, a little tinted and each proudly carried flowers home.
Later it turned out that the working day was shortened.
I still have before my eyes these women in flowers everywhere, in the metro ,shuttles,buses,traines.

women and flowers
And yesterday it was amazing.
Flower shops have a choice of different types of flowers, different prices.Men   run …with flowers…AMAIZING..

Why do I cry?
Women of this country need a flower festival.
Let it be, does not go away.
The women of this country are very hardworking and devoted.
Women of this country for many centuries gave birth and brought up children in difficult conditions.
They were leveled by rights and allowed to work for lower salaries.
The women of this country carved machines, trains and flew into space.
They were taught how to survive … maybe it would be better to give them more protection?
Protection for them and their children?
After all, these women are statistically (large number) educating children themselves and without a husband (the percentage of divorced in the country is high)

Very bitter, to tears, for everything that happens in this country…..
Poverty, lack of rights. Poverty and poverty……
And as an indicator of all this, the holidays are being canceled.
Forcibly erased culture … history … some traditions.
Bind it to politics and situation…..ostensibly so it is necessary…….
But it’s hard to see…….
I do not believe that next year men will stop giving flowers to women on March 8.
I do not believe that the holiday will cease to exist.
It is a pity that we can not choose the time ….
It is a pity that the story is altered by itself.
It is a pity that women, previously oppressed in this country, remain oppressed and now

 

I’m not Jewish or a feminist.
I’m a woman … just a woman … a woman … and that’s it.
All the photos with flowers in this post I give to the women reading this post…….
With spring you, my dear… and let in your life there will be many colors !!!!many flowers with love!!!

First day of spring

Today is first day of spring.But if you look out of the window or see the weather forecast for the whole week, it seems  January or February.

 

First-day of spring
Of couse, this is the whim of spring. Warm does not want to come,  playing with us.
In our region, in Ukraine, in recent years this is a frequent occurrence.

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Got janitors work on those days
I came to my parents before a heavy snowfall and during the period of its beginning I left.
I fell into the wind with a frost of -20 and snow.
It was awesome.
All became white. Move and can not be seen around anything.

 

But you have to move, you can not stand……
The wind blows from the feet, hits the face and clogs the snow in the eyes.
When I was already driving in the electric train, the wind whipped through the windows.

Arriving two hours later in Kiev, I discovered ocean of snow and quietly. The silence and white color….
In the morning, I already took pictures when cars were dug out and buses started to walk along the avenue.
But the snow is still coming)))
Snow does not want to stop at all……
The impression that the sky has made a hole and snow is falling…..falling……falling.

But today is first day of spring/….or 29 february…..  ))

 

First day of spring

Really, I’m set for spring

And what will happen next? But there will be spring……

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And I know that even in this weather everything comes to life …

There will be spring, sun, heat. This white fluffy snow will grow and we will undress and substitute our bodies under the sun.

first day -of spring

Maybe it will happen not so quickly, gradually…..
But it will be soon…..
But for now enjoy this spring whim…)))
This miracle of nature…..
This feminine innocence, when, after a warm winter, early in the spring, cold came again, it began to snow and became frosty.
Enjoy…….just enjoy   ))))

 

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