
**Image found on Pinterest

**Image found on Pinterest


**Images found on the Internet; collage by Natalie
It’s only approaching mid-February rather than late February hereabouts, and there are no crocuses yet nor snowdrops blooming for us, but it is balmy enough for the quinces, daffodils, and saucer magnolias to have been fooled into blooming.

oft treacherous is
winter when it proffers not
cold nor snow nor ice

But instead betrays
the garden with lies that spring
has indeed arrived

So that daffodils
and quince and magnolias
flower too early

Leaving them in great
peril from a forth coming
late wintry, hard freeze

So who’s to say that
‘tis the month of love when
deceitfulness lurks

But as for the Lord: … but I(God) will not take my love from him, not will I ever betray my faithfulness to him. I will not violate my covenant or alter why my lips have uttered. ~Psalm 89:33-34 ✝
**All photos taken by Natalie except for the first one. I found it on Pinterest today.

**Image found on Pixabay; text added by Natalie

**Image found on Pixabay; text box added by Natalie; collage by Natalie

**Hyacinth image taken today by Natalie; text added by Natalie
When I found the pelican image I just had to laugh out loud again about something that happened years ago. There’s a movie called the PELICAN BRIEF that we had gone to see. In the opening scene the camera is zooming in on pelicans in flight which of course is setting the stage for the said-named drama when I hear a woman behind me ask her friend, if she thought the birds were hawks.

**Pelican image via Pixabay; text image via Quotes App;
borders and special effects done on iPiccy
**Image via Pixabay; text box added by Natalie;
collage by Natalie; coloring and special effects done on iPiccy