April Coker, Author

Tag: spring

  • Already March

    Already Spring is here. The lawn mowers have been brought out of storage and are humming throughout the neighborhood. Brown yards and fields are now green, red bud trees are blooming with their pink blossoms, and dogwood trees are poised for their white outburst. Eager gardeners already swarm the nurseries for tender plants they hope…

  • My Love/Hate Relationship with Spring

    Ah, spring.  I would bet thousands of poems have been written extolling the virtues of spring, the beautiful flowers, budding trees, warmer temperatures, singing birds, and frisky wildlife.  Who doesn’t enjoy all those things? Unfortunately, here in East Texas, spring brings some unpleasantness with it as well.  Yes, I know, you people up north get…

  • Dogwoods = Spring

    As I was driving to meet my sister Sharon for a day of thrift shopping, I searched for a blooming dogwood tree that was close enough to the road so that I could reach it if I stopped for a closer look. Okay, I confess.  I’ve been wanting a piece of dogwood for my home,…

  • Teacher Tuesday: Evidence of New Life

      This week’s journal challenge from Folk Magazine asks writers to reflect upon the evidence of new life we saw on last week’s nature walk, and to describe new beginnings evident in our lives.   Spring is a wonderful season of new beginnings.  Everywhere you look you see flowers bursting off their stems, birds happily…

  • FOLK Magazine 2013 Journal Challenge: Mary, Mary, quite contrary, DOES your garden grow?

    This week’s journal challenge is tough.  What do I intend to plant in my garden–what flowers, vegetables, herbs?  Research them and find out what grows best in my area. . .   Yeah, right.  What grows in my “garden” this year will be what I have already planted and what I will buy in pots.…