When winter becomes barren with colors of rust and grey and it seems it will never warm up. Every day seems the same drudgery as we trod forward. But around that time where we truly tire of those unending grey days, we are met with a surprise, a gesture of hope that things will not remain cold, grey and dreary. The promise is found in the brave flowers that present themselves despite the cold when no other flowers or even leaves on trees want to emerge.

We see the trees still barren and the ground has no new growth but suddenly I spy a white explosion of peace and hope in the Lenten Rose. A towering beauty of pinks and whites in the Camellia, and the cheerful Daffodil that wants to encourage and those brave trees like the Redbud and Dogwood that ignore how the other trees don’t care to show themselves in the wind and cold.

These brave creations are all here to exclaim Awaken! Something new is about to happen!