Where does the time go -

"Waving Goodbye to May"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... with slight heaviness of heart,
a lowing, slight mourning,
to passing bud and bloom,
she waves her darling away,
catching the scent of summer,
a warm romance yet to come ..."

Illustration Friday: Theater -

"Theater"
digital collage by Mick Mather

... the flowering trees and shrubs
performed their emergent dance
like theater-in-the-round
in riots of color and bloom ...