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Dream Me Up…Buttercup…

Bertha…and I are so excited to be a part of the…Goodbye Winter…Hello Spring Blog Hop…and we thank you for visiting our blog…be sure to enter to win a copy of…Becoming Bertha…and participate in the Rafflecopter for a chance to win a $70 Amazon or B&N gift certificate…and of course you’ll want to visit the other blogs for more chances to win…links are at the end of the post.

In keeping with the theme of the blog hop…Bertha…asked me…what is my sign that Spring has sprung…

ButtercupsFor me…Spring officially arrives when the…buttercups…bloom…now…most people call them…daffodils…but for some reason…in my little corner of the world…we’ve always called them…buttercups…and…since I’m an old dog…I don’t intend to call them anything else…besides…they were my Granny’s favorite flower…and it just wouldn’t seem fair to her memory to correctĀ their name now…

Anyway…what I love about buttercups…is that they bloom while it is still winter…sometimes early enough that Punxsutawney Phil picks a bouquet while he looking for his shadow…they are like a personal promise to me…that Spring is really coming…

Frosty ButtercupsThe funny thing is…once the buttercups bloom…we can usually count on a snow…often the only one of the season…this year was no exception…as buttercups all over the county found themselves peeking out of ten inches of the white fluffy stuff…followed by a few days of icing…

Luckily…buttercups are very resilient and generally…take a snowing and keep on growing…looking just as lovely after the snow and ice as before…

Now…Bertha…says that buttercups remind her of life dreams…

Bertha…says that like with buttercups…we plant the bulbs for our dreams…and sometimes…they start to show up…before we expect them…and then… something comes along…like a big snow…and they are totally obscured from our vision…but…instead of being patient and waiting for the inevitable thaw…we think all is lost…and move on…never going back to pick the lovely bouquet that is just waiting for us…

Hmmm…from now on…when I visualize my dreams…I think I’ll see them surrounded by a field of buttercups…it couldn’t hurt…

Jane…

Becoming BerthaNow…for a chance to win a Kindle copy of…Becoming Bertha…all you have to do is leave a comment…telling us what is your first sign that Spring is arriving in your world. You have until 6:00 pm CST… March 24, 2015…then all entries will be entered into Random.org and the winner will be posted and notified by email.

 

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