The Wonderful Season of Spring

 Happy First Day of Spring!☔🌞⛅🌷

You wouldn't know it from looking outside today,

in southern Ontario, but...

...(For) lo, the winter is past,

The rain(or snow?) is over and gone.

The flowers appear on the earth;

The time of singing has come,

And the voice of the turtledove

Is heard in our land.

Song of Solomon 2:11-12

This 'turtledove' is thinking...'shoulda brought my skates!'

This is the season of birth; earth awaking

Of somber landscapes donning garb of green

Of seed-sized hope renewed; of undertaking

Sowing’s rush hour, stoking dusty sheen

Of barren bowers clothed by nature’s seamstress

Of bud-looms bursting with God-woven lace

Of yellow flares of forsythia bushes

Of sunbeams kissing a smile to each face

This is the season so fondly awaited

Welcomed with wide open windows and doors

When Old Man Winter’s ego is deflated

Slowly but surely he softens his roars

Robins return, with lusty chirrup-hellos

Fresh bounce buoys the gait of Farmer Brown

The stream lures fishing-rods with whistling fellows

Daffodils wander through country and town

Blossoms, like blush fireworks flare and fizzle

Gardens grant glimpses of Eden-like winks

Dream and dirt merge with zeal’s refurbished sizzle

Faith is the substance of planting, methinks

This is the season of green-gladdened laughter

Of showers and flowers and mornings that sing

This is the season summer follows after

This is the wonderful season of spring

© Janet Martin

Last week we enjoyed some pre-spring celebrations...

This is the non-stop action outdoors today!