Will this Spring bring a new beginning?

Unsurprisingly, the Sunrise River pools north of county road 36 are ice and snow covered. The temperature as we write this matches the date, eleven degrees on March 11. No signs of migrating waterfowl. We’ll try to check at least every other day, if not daily, for the next week to see when we get open water and northbound waterfowl. It is that time of year.

no open water yet

Photo by J. Harrington

There’s a distinct possibility that by next Friday’s report we’ll be able to celebrate an ice-free driveway. That will bring a major improvement to our quality of life. We promise we won’t even complain (much) about any intermittent slush phase.

Dining table decor has been transitioned from Valentine’s red to Lenten off-white. One group of quince stems is showing much better signs of life than the other. We had a similar experience with last month’s forsythia stems. Meanwhile, one amaryllis has bloomed and faded. Two others look like they’ll be in flower for St. Patrick’s Day. Unfortunately, the closed blossoms don’t look like there’s a trace of green in them.

It’s been a long winter. It’s been two years of the COVID pandemic. It’s been six years since tRUMP became a Faux POTUS. Now there’s the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Republican politicians continuing to foster the big lie while many Democrats toady to their corporate masters. We really and truly hope that Joan Walsh Anglund is right, that Spring Is a New Beginning. We need a Mulligan.

To the Thawing Wind

Robert Frost - 1874-1963

Come with rain, O loud Southwester!
Bring the singer, bring the nester;
Give the buried flower a dream;
Make the settled snowbank steam;
Find the brown beneath the white;
But whate’er you do tonight,
Bathe my window, make it flow,
Melt it as the ice will go;
Melt the glass and leave the sticks
Like a hermit’s crucifix;
Burst into my narrow stall;
Swing the picture on the wall;
Run the rattling pages o’er;
Scatter poems on the floor;
Turn the poet out of door.

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