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Traces of spring

The other day I had a bout of spring fever and went out into my patch of garden looking for some early green. I thought I might find some early daffodils foolishly poking up through the February snow. It took some scraping through the mulch but I did find the first green shoots. I covered [...]

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Gray and white days

This was yesterday morning around 8 am looking north from our deck. I should be able to see the small pond and other homes where that indistinct patch of white is. Instead it’s pretty much fog and mist, mist and fog. Since socked-in fog doesn’t happen all that often here I’m not tired of it [...]

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Awake, thou wintry earth

For my friends in the frozen North, evidence that spring follows winter….
Awake thou wintry earth-
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn, “An Easter Hymn”

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