“Spring drew on…and a greenness grew over those brown [garden] beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.”-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Spring by Alfons Mucha, 1896

Orchard in Spring by Alfred Sisley, 1881

Springtime Landscape by Béla Iványi-Grünwald, circa 1910

Spring Garden by Ervin Plány, circa 1907-1909