Korean springs and flowers

Korean Spring is laden with all beautiful colors known to nature.Just that the rain dampens the sunny feeling frequently and spoils the outing plans.Delicate pink cherry blossom.Tulips in all bright shades,chrysanthemum,roses in embellished pots,rhododendrons, dandelions,magnolia and other numerous flowers about which I am reading these days and soaking in pleasure.

After a short and sweet trip to Seoul Cherry Blossom Festival,we clicked a few photographs around our guest house and office as well, to create a colorful palette in our memories and photographs.

I’ll post a few pics soon but to start with,here is a dandelion for my blog by a generous friend Sangharsh

And dandelion reminds of this Ruskin Bond’s poem , which is as beautiful as this flower:

I think it’s an insult
To Nature’s generosity
That many call this cheerful flower
A ‘common weed’.
How dare they so degrade
A flower divinely made!
Sublimely does it bloom and seed
In sunshine or in shade,
Thriving in wind and rain,
On stony soil
On walls or steps
On strips of waste;
Tough and resilient,
Giving delight
When other flowers are out of sight.
And when its puff-ball comes to fruit
You make a wish and blow it clean away:
‘Please make my wish come true’, you say.
And if you’re kind and pure of heart,
Who knows?This magic flower might just respond
And help you on your way.
Good dandelion,
Be mine today.