A spring wind puffed and released tiny skydivers of cherry blossom every time she walked by. She couldn’t have helped it, even if she’d wanted to, which she really didn’t want to be able to do. Those sweet blossoms spread joy and peace to all who walked under its showers or over its flowers.
Better yet, the effervescent blessing of that spring shower passed automatically on to anyone within five miles of those so affected. She was grateful the season was short; it was exhausting, being the origin of so much good.
At least she got her Steps in!
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2021)
*Carrot Ranch Prompt (04/15/2021): In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story that seeds generosity. Who is generous and why? Think of generosity as planting a future outcome. Go where the prompt leads!
*The challenge? Write a story in 6 sentences, no more & no less, and if you’d like, share your creation or just visit and comment on others’ ideas, with GirlieOnTheEdge, Denise. The prompt is “EFFERVESCENT”, and here’s where you join the party: Six Sentence Stories
And for a little fun, because we could use a little joy ourselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1EpaboCERg Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)– Edison Lighthouse (1970)
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A wonderful description: “tiny skydivers of cherry blossom.” I’ve called it pink snow when the wind releases the petals — one of the things I look forward to during spring 🙂
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Ah ha! Being serene is just not all it’s cracked up to be then? 🤣 Great 6, Liz
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What a calming yet joyful scene! I love your description of the cherry blossoms.
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Thanks, Nicole!
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Beautiful, Liz, and such joyful use of the prompts! That last line is priceless lol!
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If we do what we must do, let’s do it with joy!
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So beautiful, you certainly spread joy over here.
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Happy to oblige!🌞🌞
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Such evocative language. Beautiful.
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Thank you, Jenne!
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Love your Six, Liz!
The first 3 sentences are perfect, especially “A spring wind puffed and released tiny skydivers of cherry blossom”. I’ve no difficulty visualizing. Living in the DC metro area, cherry blossoms are prolific.
And I can personally attest, “sweet blossoms spread joy and peace to all who walked under its showers or over its flowers.” 🙂
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🌞🌞🌞
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Gorgeous. I really like it
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🙂
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Gorgeous! Really liked it
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🌞
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I can smell the scent of the blossoms! So uplifting 🙂
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Mission accomplished!
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🙂
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visual much?*
Also really liked:
“…spread joy and peace to all who walked under its showers or over its flowers.
*lol compliment, to write words that, on their own, paint pictures in the Reader’s mind…
nice
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Thanks, Clark! I need these images in my own mind, these days!
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This made me smile – “it was exhausting, being the origin of so much good.” Yes, she did get her steps in and will soon be doing that here too.
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What a beautiful image, Liz. Now more than ever we need to take up her walk and put in the steps.
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Mother Nature would approve, and send her healing showers, I think.
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I don’t think I’ve ever been under a spring shower of cherry blossoms. I like your description of them as “skydivers”.
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Time to put this on your bucket list! 😉
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Love that descriptor: ‘tiny skydivers of cherry blossom’.
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Thank you!
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The gift of nature…Beautiful
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