Check out this guest post by Felicity Sidnell Reid as featured on The Story Reading Ape Blog.
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Spring has finally arrived, after an April that proved, once again, to be the “cruellest month”. Unfortunately, as happens when spring comes late, it is also short—blink and everything has changed. A kaleidoscope of colour shifts into the green of early summer.
Spring’s late… Summer’s watching…
| Too optimistic for our location, in March we yearned to celebrate an official changing of the guard. Winter seemed ready to retreat, but recalcitrant spring flew in, shifted uneasily from foot to foot. then fled snowdrops shivering after a bitter Easter, leaving us powerless in April’s ice-storms, Two weeks later, she returns Birds nest and sing in triumph, fish swim the creek, rabbits run through gardens, suddenly blue, yellow white and red. Longed for flowers bloom all at once— scilla, hyacinth, tulips, daffodils, forsythia, anemones, even magnolia! A bounty almost insulting, as though Spring is thumbing her nose at us. But today the trees… |
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