Spring Flowers

 See It On A Postcard's Thursday Postcard Hunt - Spring flowers

Sigriswil, Thunersee mit Niesen, Switzerland

The coming of spring in the Bernese Alps,  snowy flowers and peaks; a view of Lake Thun and Niesen, a draw for the artist and photographer. The mountain (7,749 ft; 2362m) may be dwarfed by the Eiger and Jungfrau but they don't have a funicular that can take one to the top and the longest staircase in the world, all 11,674 steps of it.

Furness Abbey, Cumbria

At sea level the daffodils are in bloom in the ruins of a 12th Century Cistercian  Abbey in the Valley of the Deadly Nightshade, once a remote place now on the outskirts of my town.

Hold April by Jesse Stuart

Hold on to April; never let her pass!/Another year before she comes again/To bring us wind as clean as polished glass/And apple blossoms in soft, silver rain./Hold April when there's music in the air,/When life is resurrected like a dream,/When wild birds sing up flights of windy stair/And bees love alder blossoms by the steam./Hold April's face close yours and look afar,/Hold April in your arms in dear romance;/While holding her look to the sun and star/And with her in her faerie dreamland dance./ Do not let April go but hold her tight,/ Month of external beauty and delight.