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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

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!



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