College Valley.

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Cheviot Hills in Northumberland.

I lived in Northumberland for many years and your site provided me with a wonderful feeling of nostalgia for places that I have loved.

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May Blossom in the College valley, Cheviot Hills, Northumberland.

Spring - An experience in immortality.
Henry D. Thoreau.

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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes
at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light
and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding
atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.
Claude Monet

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There are no limits to either time or distance,
except as man himself may make them.
I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
Hal Borland.

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Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
Tomorrow be today.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings.
Joyce Kilmer, Spring.

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The wood is decked in light green leaf.
The swallow twitters in delight.
The lonely vine sheds joyous tears
Of interwoven dew and light.

Spring weaves a gown of green to clad
The mountain height and wide-spread field.
O when wilt thou, my native land,
In all thy glory stand revealed?
Ilia Chavchavadze, Spring.

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'But I must gather knots of flowers,
And buds and garlands gay,
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother,
I'm to be Queen o' the May.'
Alfred Lord Tennyson.

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