To My Mom:

“In kindly, loving thoughts of you,
And with the faith you still impart,
The rose I give to you today,
Is the love that’s in my heart.”

- Cleo M. Shoffstall, excerpt from “A Rose for Mother” -

“April is a promise that May is bound to keep.”

- Hal Borland -

“First a howling blizzard woke us,
Then the rain came down to soak us,
And now before the eye can focus -
Crocus.”

- Lilja Rogers -