'Flowers are the Earth's Way of Laughing', April 2013 (revised April 2023)

Spring and "springtime" refer to the season, and also to ideas of rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, resurrection, and regrowth.

Spring is also the ‘season of hope’, and the time when trees begin to 'green' and flowers remind me that Mother Nature is truly amazing and profoundly inspiring to me as a photographer.

The flowers of spring also brings to mind one of my favorite quotes, ‘Flowers are the Earth’s way of laughing’, a quote attributed to the America poet, essayist, and lecturer, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).

And one more new quote – “Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.” – Luther Burbank

The images below are my tribute to spring, using mostly flowers from my backyard, and inspired by the sound of the Earth laughing!

Enjoy!

(Updated April 2023.) This has been one of my all-time most read blog posts. Written and posted originally in April 2013, I have updated it some ten years later with some of my all-time favorite flower images.