Spring 2024 Robin

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This is the sensory season. Trees are in leaf… It is a green world… Walk through an orchard and you can smell as well as feel the strength of grass underfoot, new grass reaching tall toward the sun. Boughs naked only a little while ago, then bright and heady with bloom, now rustle with leaf and tingle with the strength of fruition. Listen, and you can almost hear the pulse of sap and the mysterious workings of chlorophyll. The air vibrates with bird song… All the senses tingle, alive with the season as the world itself is alive. Nothing is impossible at such a time. ~Hal Borland, American writer, journalist, and naturalist

30 thoughts on “Spring 2024 Robin”

  1. I love Hal Borland’s words, the way he describes the green world of spring. And I love your very plump robin! All those rains you had must have given him a good supply of earthworms to fill up on. 🙂 Looks like springtime is in full swing for you now!

    • Barbara, we’ve already had a couple of days that reached 80 or more degrees. That’s almost summertime! I’m bracing for the double brood of cicadas that will soon hatch — I expect the noise will be ear-shattering!

  2. “This is the sensory season. All the senses tingle, alive with the season as the world itself is alive.”

    Yes, it sure is, Debbie! And that’s what I love about it. All my senses seem more sensitive to the beauty around me. I feel that way in Autumn as well.

    Beautiful words! Beautiful photograph!

    Have a superb weekend, my friend! X

    • Thanks, Ron. I think I gravitate more to Autumn than Spring, perhaps because it lasts longer and the weather is more stable. This Spring, we’ve had more than our share of ups and downs in temperature, wind, rain, and so on. Mother Nature just can’t seem to decide how she wants to play it!

      Glad you enjoyed this post. I thought that plump robin was just too cute to keep him stored on my camera without sharing him. Enjoy your weekend, my friend! xx

  3. What an incredible description of spring! It truly is a sensory season. Great capture of the fat Robin !

    • I’m happy to hear you enjoyed this one, Kelly. Robin was perched in a dogwood tree and seemed to have a lot to say — it was almost as if he was begging for me to snap his picture!

    • Thanks so much, Laurie. I know you’re taking a wee break, so I appreciate your making time to read and comment here. Hope you’re managing to get done what you need to while you’re away from Blog-land!

  5. Spring is definitely here – and summer is around the corner! Borland’s words are a good choice … I especially like, “Listen, and you can almost hear the pulse of sap and the mysterious workings of chlorophyll.” Enjoy your weekend.

    • Spoken like a true scientist, Frank!! I’m a bit more partial to his last line, “Nothing is impossible at such a time.” Spring does carry a lot of hope, doesn’t it? Even if our Winter wasn’t as harsh as is typical, there’s something almost magical about the way Nature comes back to life once the temperatures moderate.

    • Thank you, Linda. Part of me agrees with you … provided that spring doesn’t pull its too-often game of contrasts. For us in Central Illinois, we get one day of sun followed by three or four days of rain; one day of warmth followed by three or four of excessive humidity. I often wish spring weren’t so fickle!

  9. I suspect that this photo was taken on a walk with Monkey. I admire the color coordinating complementary composition of the robin and the dogwood flowers. I could see it as a lovely wallpaper or drapery pattern. The lovely emerald green spring grass makes your subjects pop! The robin must have been singing a love song for you to bring you a bit of much deserved joy.

    I especially like the part “All the senses tingle, alive with the season as the world itself is alive.” For me, spring is a re-awakening, pulling me out of my groggy hibernating slumber to notice my senses again. The movements from rain to peaks-a-boos of sun, from chilly to warmth, from winters quite to the chirps of birds, no doubt spring senes bring me back into life, myself, mysteriously.

    Beautiful combination to read today, Debbie. Thank you for sharing!

    • TD, thank you for making me blush this morning — I’m sure I don’t deserve such lovely compliments!

      Yes, I see what you mean about spring bringing you out of your wintertime hibernation. I think it does that for everybody, plant or animal or human! But no, I didn’t capture this robin on a walk with Monk. Sometimes the dog isn’t the most patient when it comes to my photography, and he has a tendency to scare off other critters with his exuberance (as well as upend his mama when he spins around her with his leash!)

  11. I’m so glad you shared your robin. I’m sure I’ve told you they’re one of my favorite birds. I wish I could see them more often, but sightings are rare down here. Occasionally a migrating flock will come through, but they don’t linger. I make up for their absence sometimes by putting on a three-hour youtube video of robins singing! Sometimes, technology makes life better! I hope your spring settles down soon; weather swings can feel disruptive even when they don’t bring damage with them!

    • I’m glad you enjoyed my robin — I loved the way it looked, all scrunched into a feathery ball against the wind. I guess I didn’t remember that robins are few and far between in your neck of the woods. I must’ve been awfully busy, not to notice that when I lived south.

    • I’m glad you, too, are starting to see signs of spring. I suppose it can feel like a cat stretching after a long snooze, huh?!!

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