Blooming

T. S. Eliot called April the cruelest month but I think here it is March. We experience sunny, warm days and then freezing dark cold. March may come "in like a lion, and out like a lamb' but inbetween there can still be serious ice. Hopefully we have seen the worst weather of this winter and can go on to dream new garden designs and new garden gadgets.

"All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair
The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing,
And Winter slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Today is the day when bold kites fly,
When cumulus clouds roar across the sky.
When robins return, when children cheer,
When light rain beckons spring to appear.

Today is the day when daffodils bloom,
Which children pick to fill the room,
Today is the day when grasses green,
When leaves burst forth for spring to be seen."
- Robert McCracken, Spring

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."
Charles Dickens

"The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase." E.B. White, "Hot Weather," One Man's Meat, 1944

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