Let there be new flowering...

The roses weren't the only thing in bloom at Garfield Park yesterday. I couldn't resist sneaking a few snaps of this newlywed couple -- they were barely past "I do" and glowing with enough happiness to light up the entire San Gabriel Valley.

Don't you just love a June wedding?

Yesterday was the 65th anniversary of the allied forces D-Day invasion of Normandy. I had been feeling introspective, thinking about wars and about time passing, about people lost and people trying to save. Then, I stumbled upon a joyful wedding party traipsing around a park still muddy from the recent rain. Springtime gives all of us permission to be optimistic.

I like the way Lucille Clifton expressed it best:

let there be new flowering
in the fields let the fields
turn mellow for the men
let the men keep tender
through the time let the time
be wrested from the war
let the war be won
let love be
at the end