Please don't forget it's here again. Spring for the jumping up of root, leaves and flowers. Lent for the lenghtening of days. Just a bit of new life coming up.
I have yet to see my first wild primroses (although there are some out in gardens) but I had a tub full of the tiny tete-a-tete daffodils out before Yuletide and now have grape hyacinths blooming.
Spring was one day early this year. March 20. And at last we got SUNshine! Nice colorfulEmersonquote jenny jenny. Grape hyacinths must be what we call blue grapes. I think Rhubarb, I've got one little (what do you call it? bush, spot, cluster, plot? ) of them too.
Thanks for the video. It snowed here a bit yesterday, and we still have a couple of feet of snow in the yard, but spring sunshine today. Just a few more weeks!
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.
Wyeth, real a good painter who worked mainly in monochrome hues. He may have liked T.S. Eliot's lines on this: APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers.
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote The droht of March hath perced to the roote And bathed everye veyne in swich licour Of which engend'red is the flour, And Zephyrus eke with his sweete brethe inspired hath in ev'ry holt and hethe The tendre croppes. And the sonne hath in the Ram his half-course y-runne...
Wish that April with his sweet showers Had pierced (or dispercer) the draught of March to the root And bathed every vine in such 'liquour' Of which ( something like pollination? ) And Zephyrus working with his sweet breath Had inspired in every wood and heath The tender crops. And the sun in the sign of the ram would have run half his course....
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